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.
AL SHARPTONMy dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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How do you make things fair?
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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 think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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