A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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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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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 disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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