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.
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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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 won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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How do you make things fair?
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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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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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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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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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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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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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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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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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