I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
AL SHARPTONJohn Lewis is an icon in our society.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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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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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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