This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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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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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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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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