We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTONIf O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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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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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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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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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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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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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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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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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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