I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
AL SHARPTONAs I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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