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.
AL SHARPTONMy dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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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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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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