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.
AL SHARPTONI don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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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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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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