So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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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Jeff 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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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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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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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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 think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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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