I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
AL SHARPTONif we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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How do you make things fair?
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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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.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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