What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
AL SHARPTONEvangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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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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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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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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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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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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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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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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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 everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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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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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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