We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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 think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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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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 wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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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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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 think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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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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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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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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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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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