I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
AL SHARPTONJohn 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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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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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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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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