What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
AL SHARPTONIf a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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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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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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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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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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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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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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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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