My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
AL SHARPTONI`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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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 think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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