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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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I had to steal to survive.
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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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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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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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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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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 crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.
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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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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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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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It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?
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