We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
AL SHARPTONIt seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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 cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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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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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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As 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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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