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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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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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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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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 cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

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Don't talk to us like we ignint!

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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

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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 wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

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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 never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

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When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

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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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