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.
AL SHARPTONThe job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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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 just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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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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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 just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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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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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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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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