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.
AL SHARPTONAnd that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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 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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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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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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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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