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Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.
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Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.
Jesse Jackson
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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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So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
Jesse Jackson -
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
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If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
Jesse Jackson -
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
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At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
Jesse Jackson
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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.
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Keep hope alive!
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There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.
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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
Jesse Jackson -
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
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The laws are stacked for the wealthy.
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson -
I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
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Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson
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I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.
Jesse Jackson -
I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
Jesse Jackson -
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
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