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

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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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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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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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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.

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

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You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

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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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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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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

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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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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn't. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn't. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

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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 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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

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Don't talk to us like we ignint!

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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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I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

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