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.
AL SHARPTONThe icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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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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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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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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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 I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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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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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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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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