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Race designation is a political designation.

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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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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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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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[Donald Trump] said it`s against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that`s pushing all of them in terms of policy.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high.
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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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You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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