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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
AL SHARPTON

Acre After Commitment Emancipation Give Mute Proclamation Sign True
You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
AL SHARPTON

Heal Operation Out Patient Room
We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
AL SHARPTON

Architecture Before Built Ever Got Knew Mathematics Over Philosophy Pyramind Taught
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 SHARPTON

Broke Gangster Home Hoodlum President Run States United
Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
AL SHARPTON

Administration Country President Right Thing
We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
AL SHARPTON

Black Chance Give Leader Made Second Way Will
I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
AL SHARPTON

Came Consent Decree Everbody Happen Side Tension Think Understood
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.
AL SHARPTON

Appointment Concern Figure Look Nation Represent Some Together
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
AL SHARPTON

Conscience Courageous Family Moral Nation Obligation Particular Stand
We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
AL SHARPTON

Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way
I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
AL SHARPTON

Conference Discredit Press Prosecutor Victim
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

Age Baptist Christ Church God Later Minister Ordination
Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
AL SHARPTON

Country Down Embark Just Road
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
AL SHARPTON

All Biography Fiction Kind People Philosophy Rarely Read
How do you make things fair?
AL SHARPTON

Fair Make Thing
There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
AL SHARPTON

Broken Consent Country Decree Department Help Long Place Police Reform Work

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