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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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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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I preach nonviolence because it's the better alternative.
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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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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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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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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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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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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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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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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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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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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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