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Your children need your presence more than your presents. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#defined #end #end of the day #our #predicament

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#america #barack #before #beginning #day

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#conversation #fear #georgia #here #level

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

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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. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#did #every #every day #fed #food

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#day #dreaming #future #i #laughing

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#cried #dark #everyday #face #father

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her. ↗

— Michael Jackson

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