As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
AL SHARPTONYou can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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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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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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