Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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 haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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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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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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