People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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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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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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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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