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.
AL SHARPTONWe just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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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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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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If 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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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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 cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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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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