America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
AL SHARPTONIf a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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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 think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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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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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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