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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

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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
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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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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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
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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 don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.
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Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime predatory lending.
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
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You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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