I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
AL SHARPTONWhen you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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 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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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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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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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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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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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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