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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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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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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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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.
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Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
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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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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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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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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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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