If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
AL SHARPTONThen I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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Senator [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`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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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