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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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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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We live on the dash between our birth date and our death date.
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It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an interest rate of 6 percent. Why should the banks be scalping students?
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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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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President Obama projects a strong offense, but he faces a rebellious Congress focused on state's rights.
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
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When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
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You really need a renewed commitment for the direct investment of jobs at the bottom.
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Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.
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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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