People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
AL SHARPTONAs a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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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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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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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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