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I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
Politician
Radio Personality
Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
Jr.
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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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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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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We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.
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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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The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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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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I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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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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