People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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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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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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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 don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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