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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. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

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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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I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

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We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

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We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

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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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I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.

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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... 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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America can't work for only some people and become a dream for all people. It has to work for everyone. And even though everyone might not end up at the same place, if everyone starts with the same beginning, then that's the dream fulfilled. We all don't have the same abilities, but we should have the same opportunities.

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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.

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