Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
AL SHARPTONAnd 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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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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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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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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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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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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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