You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
AL SHARPTONBut we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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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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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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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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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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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