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Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

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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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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
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Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
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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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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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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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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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