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.
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 built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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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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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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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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