I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
AL SHARPTONWhen you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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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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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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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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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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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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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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