My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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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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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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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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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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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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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 cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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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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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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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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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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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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