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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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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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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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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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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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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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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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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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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