So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
AL SHARPTONI 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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