My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
AL SHARPTONI’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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