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.
AL SHARPTONThe assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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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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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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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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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