If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
AL SHARPTONThis is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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How do you make things fair?
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I 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 remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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