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Al Sharpton

They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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Broke Gangster Home Hoodlum President Run States United
Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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Certain Certainty Defend Denigrate Issue Just Some Yourself
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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Accuse Black Kill Pasion Passion Stir Wife
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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City Department Difficult Justice People Police State Sue System Time
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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Appear Back Begin Believe Cautious Made Place Progress Roll Thing
I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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Came Consent Decree Everbody Happen Side Tension Think Understood
I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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Express Forward Move Myself Really Right Society Through
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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Broken Consent Country Decree Department Help Long Place Police Reform Work
Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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City Decrees Department Justice People Question Session Sued
Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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Balance Bet Black Country Like Many Nation Operate Show Talk Told
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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Adultery Constitution Gay Sin Tired
I love theology and some philosophy.
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Love Philosophy Some Theology
Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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Family Life Subway Value Young
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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All Biography Fiction Kind People Philosophy Rarely Read
We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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Bet Imagine Leg May President
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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Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way

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