I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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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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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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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