I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
AL SHARPTONI 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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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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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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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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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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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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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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