“Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.”

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.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

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.

I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.

You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.

if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

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.

One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.

I 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.

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

I balance it all by being extremely organized, and I am a very efficient delegator.

In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn’t can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.

Music does more than soothe the soul, it brings balance to the mind, body, and spirit.

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.