What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
AL SHARPTONDonald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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