One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
AL SHARPTONI remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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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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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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