This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
AL SHARPTONDuring my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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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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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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My 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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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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How do you make things fair?
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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