Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
AL SHARPTONIt`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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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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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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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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