The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
AL SHARPTONWe 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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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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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Senator [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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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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 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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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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