National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
AL SHARPTONWe have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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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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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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