I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
AL SHARPTONMy 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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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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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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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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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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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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