Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
AL SHARPTONSenator [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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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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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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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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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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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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