My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONWe just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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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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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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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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If 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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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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