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Quote by Jesse Jackson
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I n

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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Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. Theyre free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. – Jesse Jackson

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Freedom
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. – Jesse Jackson

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Justice & Law
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Give peace a chance. – Yitzhak Rabin

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War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. – Douglas William Jerrold

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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. – Adam Smith

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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is — “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I just wake up and say, Youre a bum, go do something worthwhile today. – Garth Brooks

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