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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 82
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 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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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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Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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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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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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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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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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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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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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People always grow and mature.
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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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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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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
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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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