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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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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
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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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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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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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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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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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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When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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