You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
AL SHARPTONMany like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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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`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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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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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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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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