I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
AL SHARPTONWe have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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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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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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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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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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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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