Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
AL SHARPTONThe Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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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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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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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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.
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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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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 think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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