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AL SHARPTONYou can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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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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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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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 am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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How do you make things fair?
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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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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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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