if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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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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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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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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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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