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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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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
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When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.
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There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.
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Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
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I had to steal to survive.
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The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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[Donald Trump] can`t reach out and push off at the same time when he says - he says we want the ban on assault weapons, because they`re so very dangerous, and background checks on guns, given the level of violence in the country, he says he wants more guns to make us more secure.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
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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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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
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The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.
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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
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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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You know, people'd always ask Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House? They never seen the house I'm running from.
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Race designation is a political designation.
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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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No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots.
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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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