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Jesse Jackson


American
October 8, 1941
Activist
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Fighting disparities is very significant.


Jesse Jackson
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Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.


Jesse Jackson
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.


Jesse Jackson
Tags: Music Should Arts
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.


Jesse Jackson
Tags: Up Down Must
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I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.


Jesse Jackson
Tags: Know Lot Heard
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.


Jesse Jackson
Tags: You Up Never
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.


Jesse Jackson
Tags: Dreams More Our
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When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.


Jesse Jackson
Tags: Had Only Right
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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.


Jesse Jackson
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Jesse Jackson
Tags: People His Body
The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president.
Jesse Jackson
When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.
Jesse Jackson
Tags: You More Out
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
Jesse Jackson
Tags: Great Back Put
George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.
Jesse Jackson
Tags: More Them Than
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
Jesse Jackson
Tags: Work Because Will
You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.
Jesse Jackson
Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.
Jesse Jackson
Tags: Because Know Us
People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
Jesse Jackson
Tags: Home People Many
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
Jesse Jackson
We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
Jesse Jackson
Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.
Jesse Jackson
Tags: Anger Other Many