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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.

Al Sharpton

You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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Adress Criminal Justice Oppression Relate Vote Yesterday
I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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Came Consent Decree Everbody Happen Side Tension Think Understood
Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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Cat Democrat Herd Organize
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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Adultery Constitution Gay Sin Tired
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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During 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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Campaign Christian High Presidential Time
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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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Absurd Adultery Break Constitution Marriage Responsible
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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Child Could Ghetto Governor Hope Look President Ran State Walk Across
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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Almost Black Go Grew Holiday
We 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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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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