I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
AL SHARPTONSome issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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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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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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How do you make things fair?
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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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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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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