As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
AL SHARPTONJeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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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 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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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