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.
AL SHARPTONWe won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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.
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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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