If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
AL SHARPTONCrime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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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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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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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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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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