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.
AL SHARPTONI 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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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