My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONI think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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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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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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