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What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.

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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If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
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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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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
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You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
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We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.
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No one has earned the right to do less than their best.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
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[Donald Trump] says if he wins, he`ll accept the outcome. If he lose, he will not accept the outcome. That is playing by two set of rules that is not very fair.
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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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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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
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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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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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Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
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