We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
AL SHARPTONThe Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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