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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

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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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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

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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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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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I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

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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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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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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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We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment. When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.

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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 remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

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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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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.

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

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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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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has, and that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.

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