If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONFirst and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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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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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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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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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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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