We 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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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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 done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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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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