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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

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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 need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.

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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.

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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

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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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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. 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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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. 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 won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

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

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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

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People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

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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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I've seen too much in life to give up.

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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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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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