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

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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Guaranteed
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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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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I had to steal to survive.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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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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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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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 had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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