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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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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
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If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.
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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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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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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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If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.
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