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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

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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
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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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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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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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 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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