It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
AL SHARPTONNational Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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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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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 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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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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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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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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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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