We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
AL SHARPTONNational Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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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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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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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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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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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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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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