The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
AL SHARPTONIt 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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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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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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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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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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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