I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
AL SHARPTONDr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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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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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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 think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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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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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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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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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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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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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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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