What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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