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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

Al Sharpton

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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Better Brutal Cincinnati Continual Dignity Economic Person Police Problem Ride Say Shame Walk
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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Adultery Constitution Gay Sin Tired
If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Back Black Country Loss Media Publicize Shot Trick Youth
Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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Certain Certainty Defend Denigrate Issue Just Some Yourself
But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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Commit Much Resist
But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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Beautiful Believe Country March
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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City Decrees Department Justice People Question Session Sued
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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Cause Much Own Play Theatric Way
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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Acre After Commitment Emancipation Give Mute Proclamation Sign True
America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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Better Place Country Make Participate
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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Aside Bring City Comunity Crisis Hard National Sweat Work
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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Build Empire Folk Philosophy Pyramid White
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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Anymore Color Drug More People Think
You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Balance Deal Long Over Run
What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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Comfortable Community Discomfort Effective Help Load Opinion Oppress Profess Try
How do you make things fair?
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Fair Make Thing
Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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Comment Cover Life Loss More Praise Trick
I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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Give Life Much Seen
I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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Appear Back Begin Believe Cautious Made Place Progress Roll Thing
I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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Boost City Down Investment Monetary Show Some Symbolic Think
John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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Icon Our People Society
I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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Choose Deal Leadership People Respond Think
We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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Balance Congress Least Look Now Provide Some Toward Yera
if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Beautiful Believe Everybody Kept Voting
Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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Absolute Advocate Believe City People Consent Decree Department Police Right Thing
A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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Disagree Jury Make Question Racist Right Somebody
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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Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

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