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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
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Greenville
South Carolina
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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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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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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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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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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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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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