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

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
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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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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We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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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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If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.
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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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