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.
AL SHARPTONIf 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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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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How do you make things fair?
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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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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I love theology and some philosophy.
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