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The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. Obama has that voice. It has to be used.

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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

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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.

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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

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My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

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I remember being taught my place.

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I had to steal to survive.

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Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

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If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

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There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: October 8th, 1941

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