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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

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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
Failing
May
Trying
Guaranteed
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
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I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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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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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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