White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONWe built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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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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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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 always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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