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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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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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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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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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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.
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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 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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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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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