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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

Jesse Jackson

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
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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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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
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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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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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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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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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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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