My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONBut we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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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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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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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 just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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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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