If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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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How do you make things fair?
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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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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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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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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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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