Men had been made to be the cause of much of the ills of society by the emergence of the conservative movement in the 1980s, ... black males were not responsible.

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These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to racial harmony. If society hasn't passed this test, then we have the right to say we still have a problem with racism.

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In a way, I've called for a symbolic show on the mall to try to mobilize a lot of people at home to contribute more vigorously - money, resources, things like that - to their local communities.

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The challenge to the president is therefore important because if he does not want to give some acknowledgment to the protest, if he does not want to accord respect to the congressional Black Caucus, the civil rights leadership, the fraternal leadership, and those mainline leaders, then he's still faced with this group, which is posing him the same challenge in terms of public policy.

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It's kind of all right that these people fade from the scene, because you have to understand that they didn't do what they did for the movement to stay in that mode -- of marching in the streets for social change -- for 50 years. They wanted it to find its way into the necessary institutions of American society.

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Black people are no different than any other group of people in the world, ... Explaining [the looting], you have to go far, far beyond skin color.

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I don't think the outreach was working all that well, but this destroys it. The perception is that he didn't move quickly enough because a lot of the people involved were black. Whether that's true or not, that is the perception in our community.

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I have to conclude that what Steele is doing is developing a line of attack that is designed to gain him a sympathy vote.

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