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United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)

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Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

– Jesse Jackson

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A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

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America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

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Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

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If Puerto Rico had two senators and four congressmen, it ’d be all the difference in the world, if you’re at the table with two senators and four congressman, you can bargain and negotiate leverage. Puerto Rico has no leverage. It can only make moral appeals.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Politics

We will not march on the side of the highway. We're marching on the highway.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on CNN 8 months ago US News

She had money and could not buy ice cream, had a car and could not stop to buy gasoline, aretha came out of the bowels of our struggle.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on CNN 8 months ago US News

Aretha Franklin kept right on singing.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on CNN 8 months ago US News

They are clearly setting the pace, making measurable progress for three consecutive years. They've acted with intention, not just aspiration.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Company News

The passing of Muhammad Ali has made us all feel a little more alone in the world, something solid, something big beautiful and life-affirming has left this world.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on Reuters 2 years ago US News

Something solid, something big beautiful and life-affirming has left this world.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on Reuters 2 years ago US News

By circumventing the long established procedure for picking the city's top cop, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has loaded Chief Johnson down with baggage that reeks of backroom deals.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago US News

Khloe was there, and his friends. We joined hands and we had prayer, he is in a real struggle, and I think the doctors are doing their task.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on CNN 3 years ago US News

He is in a real struggle, and I think the doctors are doing their task.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on CNN 3 years ago US News

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is in a real difficult situation, we can only at this time pray for The Rev. Jesse Jackson recovery.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

We can only at this time pray for The Rev. Jesse Jackson recovery.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

His name is on the honor roll of freedom fighters, the man helped emancipate Washington.

– Jesse Jackson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

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