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What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Your children need your presence more than your presents. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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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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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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