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.
AL SHARPTONThough racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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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 always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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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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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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