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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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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
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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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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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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Hymies. And Hymietown.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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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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People always grow and mature.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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