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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
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We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
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There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
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You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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I had to steal to survive.
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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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