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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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His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.
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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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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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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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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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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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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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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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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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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.
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Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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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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Semi-automatic weapons are not just about gun control, they're about national security. You know that these weapons can shoot down airplanes, they can blow up railroads. This is really a whole national security issue.
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