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Hymies. And Hymietown.

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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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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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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When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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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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No lie can live forever.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
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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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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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