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It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
Jesse Jackson
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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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