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You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

Jesse Jackson

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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
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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