We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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How do you make things fair?
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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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 don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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 am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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