I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
AL SHARPTONCrime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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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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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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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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