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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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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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 unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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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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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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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