I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
AL SHARPTONDr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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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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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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