John Lewis is an icon in our society.
AL SHARPTONBut we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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 job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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