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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.
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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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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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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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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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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.
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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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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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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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No lie can live forever.
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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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