I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
AL SHARPTONI think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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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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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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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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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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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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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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