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.
AL SHARPTONIt is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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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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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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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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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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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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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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