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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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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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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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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 are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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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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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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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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When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.
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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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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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