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.
AL SHARPTONDuring my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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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’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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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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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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