Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
AL SHARPTONAny 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.
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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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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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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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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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