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.
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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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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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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