American - Activist | October 8, 1941 -
In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.
Jesse Jackson
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People always grow and mature.
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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
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Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
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If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.
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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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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
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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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I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
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Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
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Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
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