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.
AL SHARPTONIt 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 think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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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 need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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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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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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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