If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
AL SHARPTONThe United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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How do you make things fair?
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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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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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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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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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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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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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.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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