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In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. Sh

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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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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Death
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Jesse Jackson
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It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as I Have a Dream speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment. – Jesse Jackson

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sad
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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. – Maynard James Keenan

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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. – Potter Stewart

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History

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. – Tom Osborne

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History

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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