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Weve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are. – Jesse Jackson

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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. – Jesse Jackson

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Peace
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People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in peoples home lives, domestic stuff. – Jesse Jackson

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Home
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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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To rule is easy, to govern difficult. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Government

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Government

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. – Herbert Spencer

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Government

My mothers sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost. – Buffalo Bill

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Government

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Put a knife to thy throat, if youre a man given to appetite. – Bible

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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? – Fanny Brice

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I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. – Harriet Tubman

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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. – Will Durant

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