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.
AL SHARPTONBaltimore is just embarking down this road.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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 understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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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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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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