We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
AL SHARPTONDr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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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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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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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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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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