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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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Keys
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Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
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Hymies. And Hymietown.
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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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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Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
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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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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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