I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
AL SHARPTONMy dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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