I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
AL SHARPTONMany like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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The 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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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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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 need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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