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“You must not surrender! You may or may not get there but just know that you're qualified! And you hold on, and hold out!”

Source: Address to the Democratic National Convention, Atlanta, 19 July 1988

Context Closing his 1988 convention speech after finishing second to Dukakis, he spoke to young people growing up poor, recalling his own birth to a teenage mother in South Carolina.

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Jesse JacksonUnited States · b. 1941
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