White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONI just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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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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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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