On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
AL SHARPTONAnd we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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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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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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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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How do you make things fair?
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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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 understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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Vice 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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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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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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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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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.
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