As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
AL SHARPTONSenator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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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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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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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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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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