People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
AL SHARPTONI’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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