As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
AL SHARPTONI think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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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 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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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