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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

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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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Responsible
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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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No lie can live forever.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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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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When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.
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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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There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.
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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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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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