If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
AL SHARPTONThere 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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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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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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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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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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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