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I was extended secret service protection during my presidential ru

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate. – Jesse Jackson

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I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. – Jesse Jackson

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For me, Barack Obamas election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before. – Jesse Jackson

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an deaths the other. – Tennessee Williams

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we dont know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. – Anais Nin

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The coward sneaks to death the brave live on. – George Sewell

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Sometimes I think were alone. Sometimes I think were not. In either case, the thought is staggering. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. – Samuel Johnson

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Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, Here I am! – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. – Strom Thurmond

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