Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
AL SHARPTONI’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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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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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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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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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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