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.
AL SHARPTONI 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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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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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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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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