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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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It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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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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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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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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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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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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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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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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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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