John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
AL SHARPTONI wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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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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I 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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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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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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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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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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