My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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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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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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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 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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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`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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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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