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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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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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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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If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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