Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
AL SHARPTONI 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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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