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.
AL SHARPTONVice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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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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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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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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How do you make things fair?
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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