A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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