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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

Al Sharpton

The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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Activist Cause Change Job People Social Tense
America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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Better Place Country Make Participate
Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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Balance Bet Black Country Like Many Nation Operate Show Talk Told
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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Agreement Community Department Police Understand
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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Activism Dealer Drug Involve Level Ministry Order Responsible Social Some Think
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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Back Black Country Loss Media Publicize Shot Trick Youth
We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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Black Chance Give Leader Made Second Way Will
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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Black March Problem Solve Still
A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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Disagree Jury Make Question Racist Right Somebody
John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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Icon Our People Society
You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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Adress Criminal Justice Oppression Relate Vote Yesterday
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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Attorney Constituency General Parent Particular Think Want Whosoever Yes
You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Balance Deal Long Over Run
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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Acre After Commitment Emancipation Give Mute Proclamation Sign True
As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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Anyone Baptist Couple Else Gay Imoose Minister Right View
On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Before Capital Dream Inaugration Join King Nation People Protect Rain Saturday Thousand Weekend

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