There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
AL SHARPTONOn 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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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 must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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