Al Sharpton: Jesse Jackson ‘Made Me Believe Even a Kid on Welfare ... Could Be Somebody’

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SHARPTON: “I was born and raised in Brooklyn. My father left when I was 10. Unlike many other ministers that I looked up to, I didn't come from a high pedigree, nice family with my father and grandfather and great grandfather preachers. My father left. Jesse was born out of wedlock. He taught me -- his slogan was, I am somebody. It's not how you're born, it's where you go with it. So he made me believe even a kid on welfare in Brownsville, Brooklyn could be somebody because of Jesse Jackson taught me that.”