The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
AL SHARPTONPeople have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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.
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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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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.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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