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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
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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If whites would vote their economic interests, not their racial fears, we the people who have the most need for change have the power to bring about that change nonviolently.
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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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The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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