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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.

Jesse Jackson

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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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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 may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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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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On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.
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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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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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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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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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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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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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