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.
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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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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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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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