Jesse Jackson Quotes About Justice
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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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There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.
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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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Capitalism without capital is just an ism.
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It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
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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.
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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