I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
AL SHARPTONThe United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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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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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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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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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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