Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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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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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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