We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
AL SHARPTONDr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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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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