I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
AL SHARPTONI`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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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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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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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.
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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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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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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`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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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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