If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
AL SHARPTONWe’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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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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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’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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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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