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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?
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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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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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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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Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.
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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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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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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
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Sometimes arrogance makes us overreach. George Bush Jr. often tries to suggest the leaders of other countries, and it is just not good diplomacy.
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