The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
AL SHARPTON
My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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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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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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