Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
AL SHARPTONI’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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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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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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