You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
AL SHARPTONJohn Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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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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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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