If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it because I am somebody!Respect me! Protect me! Never neglect me! I am somebody! My mind is a pearl! I can learn anything in the world! Nobody can save us, from us, for us, but us! I can learn. It is possible. I ought to learn. It is moral. I must learn. It is imperative.
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Jesse Jackson was a contemporary American baptist minister, activist, and politician. Jesse Louis Jackson is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. Beginning as a young protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. Read more on Wikipedia →

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