If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONPeople 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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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 am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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’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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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