I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
AL SHARPTONThe unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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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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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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As 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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