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.
AL SHARPTONAs I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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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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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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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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