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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Jackson
Age: 82
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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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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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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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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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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The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.
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Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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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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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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I had to steal to survive.
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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.
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