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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

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
Equality
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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