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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More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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The 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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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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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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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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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.
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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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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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