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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Jesse Jackson

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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
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Inclusion
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When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
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Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
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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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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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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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I had to steal to survive.
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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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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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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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Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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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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