We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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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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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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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 think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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