One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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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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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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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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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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As 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`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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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 was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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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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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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