My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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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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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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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 need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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