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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
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Greenville
South Carolina
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You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
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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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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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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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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
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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 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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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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