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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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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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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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I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.
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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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If the right wing has their way and state's rights control voting rights, they would remove protections that make it difficult for seniors to vote. It would be harder for students to vote on campus. These are attempts to suppress acts of voting.
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When everyone is included, everyone wins.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
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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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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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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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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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Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president.
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Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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