We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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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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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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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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