On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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 that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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