Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
AL SHARPTONI`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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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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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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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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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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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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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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