John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
AL SHARPTONWhen you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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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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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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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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