If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
AL SHARPTONI grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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