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.
AL SHARPTONI 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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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 we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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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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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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