If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONI`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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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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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.
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Vice 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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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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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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