The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
AL SHARPTONAmerica has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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.
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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 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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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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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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.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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