I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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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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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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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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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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