White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONI think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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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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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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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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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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As 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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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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