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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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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

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

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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

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Don't talk to us like we ignint!

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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.

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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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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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

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

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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

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I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in 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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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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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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