If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONMy 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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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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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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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