I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
AL SHARPTONI do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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 you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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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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