If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONDr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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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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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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