"Tomorrow is not written by our odds of hardship, but by the audacity of our hope, by the vitality of our vote," she said.

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.

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