I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
AL SHARPTONWe’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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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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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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 blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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