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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

Al Sharpton

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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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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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 never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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Architecture Before Built Ever Got Knew Mathematics Over Philosophy Pyramind Taught
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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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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