I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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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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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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