if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
AL SHARPTONJohn Lewis is an icon in our society.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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