I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
AL SHARPTONSo 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.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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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`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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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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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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