I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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How do you make things fair?
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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