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.
AL SHARPTONI can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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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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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’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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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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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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