I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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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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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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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 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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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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