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In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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Civil Rights Advocate
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.
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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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The crown jewel of Dr. King`s movement was to protect the right to vote for all citizens.
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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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You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.
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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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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
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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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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.
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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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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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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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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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