I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
AL SHARPTONAs 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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How do you make things fair?
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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