It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
AL SHARPTONI think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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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 think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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