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 SHARPTONPeople have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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