They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
AL SHARPTONThis 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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 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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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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