I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
AL SHARPTONThere 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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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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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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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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