The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
AL SHARPTONPeople 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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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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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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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How do you make things fair?
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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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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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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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