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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.

Al Sharpton

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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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Arena Concert Depend People Two Work
The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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Activist Cause Change Job People Social Tense
If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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Come House Jew Over Pin Put Want Yarmulker
On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Before Capital Dream Inaugration Join King Nation People Protect Rain Saturday Thousand Weekend
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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Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way
It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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Better Brutal Cincinnati Continual Dignity Economic Person Police Problem Ride Say Shame Walk
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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Crow Deal Defeat Esquire Son
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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Conscience Courageous Family Moral Nation Obligation Particular Stand
You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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Adress Criminal Justice Oppression Relate Vote Yesterday
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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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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Almost Black Go Grew Holiday
This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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Conscience Nation Party Wrong
I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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Done Haven Sitcom Thing
This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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Bad Children Giant Hope Midget Name Stand Village
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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Action Affiliate Around Chapter City Country Found Group National Network

My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.

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