When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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I love theology and some philosophy.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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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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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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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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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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