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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

Jesse Jackson

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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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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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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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What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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