My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONWe cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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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’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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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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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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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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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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