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How do you make things fair?

Al Sharpton

This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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Bad Children Giant Hope Midget Name Stand Village
I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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Almost Black Go Grew Holiday
We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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Divide Forward Move
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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Country Culture Everybody Inferior Respect Rule Through Treat Welcome
You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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Anything Today
Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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Commitment King Passive Person Resistance
Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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Define Friend Politic Today Tomorrow
Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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Age Better Die Nothing Old Purpose Something
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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Forgot Grant Ignore King Simply Some Vision
So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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Back Better Blood Crack Father Hold Mean Mother Pocket Tell
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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Architecture Before Built Ever Got Knew Mathematics Over Philosophy Pyramind Taught
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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Advance Appear Clearly Consent Express Right Session State Use
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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Back Black Country Loss Media Publicize Shot Trick Youth
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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Broken Consent Country Decree Department Help Long Place Police Reform Work
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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All Biography Fiction Kind People Philosophy Rarely Read
On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Before Capital Dream Inaugration Join King Nation People Protect Rain Saturday Thousand Weekend
We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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Become Community Country Individual Must Represent Staes United
This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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Agreement Community Department Police Understand
I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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Done Haven Sitcom Thing
When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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Boycott Deal Effective Enough Everyone Need
I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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Do Make Ought Respect Sacrifice Some Think Will
John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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Icon Our People Society
I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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Bring Challenge Constant Go Hear King People Something Spirit Together
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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Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way
Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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Blatant Case Existence Less Many Racism Undeniable
A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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Civil Elect Escalate Icon President Right War
Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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Administration Country President Right Thing

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