I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
AL SHARPTONThough racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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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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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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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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