If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
AL SHARPTONDr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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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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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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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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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’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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