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!”…
AL SHARPTONWe’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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