I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
AL SHARPTONWhen 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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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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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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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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 Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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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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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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