The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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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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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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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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 think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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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`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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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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