If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONNational Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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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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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.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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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.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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