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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Al Sharpton

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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Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way
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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Bad Children Giant Hope Midget Name Stand Village
I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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Dead Deal Drug End Man Reject Unarm
I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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Believe Bunch Cloth Donkey Elephant Party Run
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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Broken Consent Country Decree Department Help Long Place Police Reform Work
And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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Divide Nation Right Stronger Ultimate
Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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Age Better Die Nothing Old Purpose Something
We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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Bet Imagine Leg May President
I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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Activist Anything Done Known Preach Way
We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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Appointment Continue Forward Look Monitor Some Thing
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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Back Black Country Loss Media Publicize Shot Trick Youth
I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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Already Country Hell
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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Accuse Black Kill Pasion Passion Stir Wife
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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Appear Believe Department Front Hard Justice Mean Nor Police Reason Reform Work
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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Conscience Nation Party Wrong
A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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Disagree Jury Make Question Racist Right Somebody
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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Agreement Community Department Police Understand
When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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Boycott Deal Effective Enough Everyone Need
We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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Continue Fight Forward Go Move Think
You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Balance Deal Long Over Run
I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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Address Chosen Elect Every Issue Just President Think Unfortunate
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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City Decrees Department Justice People Question Session Sued
Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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Define Friend Politic Today Tomorrow
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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Age Baptist Christ Church God Later Minister Ordination
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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Discrimination Inequality Long Often Racism Saturate Say Simple Slavery Way
John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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Icon Our People Society
The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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Assumption Enough March People Protest Sense Stand

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