White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONThe 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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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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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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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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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