It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
AL SHARPTONDonald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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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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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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John 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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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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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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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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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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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