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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: 83
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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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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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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.
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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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I had to steal to survive.
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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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George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
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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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