This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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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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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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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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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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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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