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

Al Sharpton

People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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Country Night People Picture Sit Talkie Walk
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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Age Dress People President Sure
I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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Dead Deal Drug End Man Reject Unarm
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 think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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Choose Deal Leadership People Respond Think
As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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Child Could Ghetto Governor Hope Look President Ran State Walk Across
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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Advance Appear Clearly Consent Express Right Session State Use
It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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Action Bring Program Time Volume
That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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Crook Forefather Mean Nothing Proud
if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Beautiful Believe Everybody Kept Voting
We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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Anything Country Owe Us
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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Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way
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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Change Community Man Pray Term View World
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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Almost Beat Door Force Inch Life Terrible
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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Conscience Courageous Family Moral Nation Obligation Particular Stand
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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Body Dance Long Someone Step Uncontrollably

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