A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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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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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I`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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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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 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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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