I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
AL SHARPTONI do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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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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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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