I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
AL SHARPTONWe never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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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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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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 need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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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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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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