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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

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The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

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So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.

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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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How do you make things fair?

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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.

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I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

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There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

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The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. 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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

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

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

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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. The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.

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