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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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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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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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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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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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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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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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Hymies. And Hymietown.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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