I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
AL SHARPTONBut we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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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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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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It`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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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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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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