You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
AL SHARPTONAs 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.
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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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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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