I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
AL SHARPTONMy ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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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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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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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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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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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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