My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONIf I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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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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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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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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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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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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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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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 think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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