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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.

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A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

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

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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.

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I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

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When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

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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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If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: October 8th, 1941

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