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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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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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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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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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 just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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