When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
AL SHARPTONAny use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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 cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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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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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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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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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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