As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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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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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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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’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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