I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
AL SHARPTONOn Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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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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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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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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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 grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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