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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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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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You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
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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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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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The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
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We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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You cannot have a diplomatic offensive without talking.
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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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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.
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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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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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