Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
AL SHARPTONIf 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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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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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 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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