American - Activist | October 8, 1941 -
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson
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There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
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I want to make America better!
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I'm too mature to be angry.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.
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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.
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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.
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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.
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We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
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