People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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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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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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