People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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.
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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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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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