I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
AL SHARPTONHaiti 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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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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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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