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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

Jesse Jackson

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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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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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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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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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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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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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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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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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