John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
AL SHARPTONCrime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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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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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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