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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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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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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
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It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?
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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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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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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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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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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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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
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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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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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