White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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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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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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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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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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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 wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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