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.
AL SHARPTONDr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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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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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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We 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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