I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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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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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 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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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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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 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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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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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.
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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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