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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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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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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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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
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Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.
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Hymies. And Hymietown.
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I want to cut his nuts off.
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.
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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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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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The question becomes what kind of coalition can we build that will make a transition and empower the people of Iraq? The American soldiers' presence there is an act of provocation. There's a big red ball on the back of every American soldier in that country, so our being there contributes to the crisis, it does not resolve the crisis.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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