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

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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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
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From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
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Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
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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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Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
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The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name.
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The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.
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You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.
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The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
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The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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I had to steal to survive.
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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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