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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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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. – Jesse Jackson

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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then Ive looked outside and seen people starving to death. – Don Van Vliet

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon

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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. – Tennessee Williams, “The Rose Tattoo”

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So we mustnt lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and were very conscious of the need to continue that. – Theresa May

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