We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
AL SHARPTONIt`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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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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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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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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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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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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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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