My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONAnd 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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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