The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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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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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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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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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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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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