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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
Abu Bakar Bashir
Good
Eyes
Muslim
Weakness
Leaders
Look
West
Western
Just
Want
Who
Media
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir
Tough
Islam
Weak
Pliable
Because
Form
Hard
Original
As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets.
Abu Bakar Bashir
Long
Muslims
Puppets
Could
Were
Confident
Just
Now
Defeated
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
Abu Bakar Bashir
Money
Own
Other
Benefit
Worry
Way
Destroyed
Arab
Neighbours
About
More
Only
Leaders
Calculations
Make
Making
Making Money
Lebanon
Get
Being
Oil
Them
Turn
Next
Right
Gas
Profits
There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
You
Smart
Days
Know
Bomb
Thing
Bombs
Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.
Al Sharpton
Me
Judge
Police
Believe
Criminal
Those
System
Bad
Must
Impartial
Clear
Fair
Most
Police Officers
Said
Nor
Repeatedly
Officers
Unethical
Engage
Transparent
Acts
From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.
Al Sharpton
People
Fear
Black
Our
Our Lives
Valued
Out
Unarmed
Some
Driving
Idea
Over
New
Preconceived
Just
Being
Children
While
Racial
Lives
Profiling
Phenomenon
Pulled
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
Al Sharpton
Commitment
King
Non-Violence
Passive
Used
Gandhi
Dr
Dr. King
Resistance
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Al Sharpton
Prayer
School
Right-Wing
Constitutional
Wing
Bear
Arms
Around
Always
Amendment
Right
I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.
Al Sharpton
Easy
Never
Make
Going
Again
Fat
The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.
Al Sharpton
Death
Day
Election
Country
Our
Say
Must
Cases
Horrific
Voices
Reminders
Policing
Island
How
Eric
Ferguson
Heard
Done
Us
Election Day
Across
Who
Serve
Garner
Stark
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment.
Al Sharpton
Time
Good
School
College
Jobs
High
High School
Higher
Attending
Instead
Leads
Obtaining
Unemployment
Fewer
Graduating
Creates
Incarceration
Paying
Chances
Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
Al Sharpton
Today
Tomorrow
Defines
Terrorist
Terrorists
Friend
Who
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Al Sharpton
King
Took
General
He
Principles
Another
Era
Place
Confronted
Things
Dr
Universal
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
Al Sharpton
Black
Sullivan
Would
Almost
Ed Sullivan
Go
Up
Grew
Holiday
Act
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton
Love
People
Philosophy
Kinds
Rarely
Some
About
Read
Very
Any
Fiction
Theology
Biographies
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
Al Sharpton
War
First
Every
Out
Spoke
Come
Anti-War
Candidate
Against
March
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
Al Sharpton
School
President
High
High School
Student
Student Body
Won
Vice
Vice President
Anything
Mean
Body
I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
Al Sharpton
Word
Sense
Truest
Patriot
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al Sharpton
Life
My Life
Before
Preach
Other
Else
Way
Never
Known
Than
Done
Anything
Anything Else
Activist
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
Al Sharpton
Health
Care
Carry
Constitutional
Constitutional Right
Charlton
Health Care
Grandma
Why
Rifle
Right
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Al Sharpton
You
Passion
Wife
Black
Seen
Would
Had
Been
His
Stirred
Up
Same
Accused
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
Al Sharpton
You
Cause
Too Much
Own
Too
Way
Get
Much
Your
Play
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Al Sharpton
Vision
King
Kin
Promoted
Some
Seems
Simply
His
Forgotten
Ignore
Chosen
Dr
Dr. King
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Al Sharpton
Me
Son
Father
Way
Would
Brown
Never
Had
He
Talk
Talked
Became
James
James Brown
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
Al Sharpton
Today
God
Age
Christ
Church
Later
Minister
Became
Am
Baptist
Which
Ordination
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