What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
AL SHARPTONMy dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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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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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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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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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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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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