We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
AL SHARPTONAnd 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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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