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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.

Al Sharpton

We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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Before Community Country English Fight Language Look Preach Test
A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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Civil Elect Escalate Icon President Right War
As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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Anyone Baptist Couple Else Gay Imoose Minister Right View
Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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Ask Call Charge People Us Victim
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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Anymore Color Drug More People Think
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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Country Educate Education Government Obligation People Young
We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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Believe Change Constitution Country Down Fundamental Need Real
I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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Believe Bunch Cloth Donkey Elephant Party Run
The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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Community Congressman District Diverse Happen Kind More Represent Thing Wonderful
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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Accuse Black Kill Pasion Passion Stir Wife
I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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Harmony Help Job Justice King Mean Racial
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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Attorney City Current Decent Different Like Next Person Strike Tone
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.
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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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Forgot Grant Ignore King Simply Some Vision
I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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Before Believe Caution Concern Grassroot Initial Level Like Organize Seen
I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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Patriot Sense Truest World

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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