National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
AL SHARPTONIt 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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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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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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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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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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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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