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.
AL SHARPTONVice 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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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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Any 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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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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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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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`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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