Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
AL SHARPTONIt 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 icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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 don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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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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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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