The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
AL SHARPTONThe promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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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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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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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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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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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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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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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