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’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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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 very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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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 cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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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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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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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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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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