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The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 82
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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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.
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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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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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The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
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In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
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People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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People always grow and mature.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.
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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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I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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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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We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.
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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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