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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

First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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John 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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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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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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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 whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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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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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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