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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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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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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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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How do you make things fair?
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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 feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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 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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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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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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