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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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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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So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
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No lie can live forever.
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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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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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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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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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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
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If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
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