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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.

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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Comfortable Community Discomfort Effective Help Load Opinion Oppress Profess Try
As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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Anyone Baptist Couple Else Gay Imoose Minister Right View
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
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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Cause Much Own Play Theatric Way
I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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Always Brought Instinct Wrestle
The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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Assumption Enough March People Protest Sense Stand
The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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Baltimore Department Engage Law Pattern Police Practice Right
I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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Express Forward Move Myself Really Right Society Through
I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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Based Case People Runmthink Situation Support
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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Cop Crime Gun Person Run Stand Store
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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Activism Dealer Drug Involve Level Ministry Order Responsible Social Some Think
I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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Harmony Help Job Justice King Mean Racial
They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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Adultery Constitution Gay Sin Tired
Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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Absurd Adultery Break Constitution Marriage Responsible
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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Area Dramatical Feel President Remember Something Think Urban Yesterday
But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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Commit Much Resist

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.

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