I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
AL SHARPTONJohn Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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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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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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