Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
AL SHARPTONMy ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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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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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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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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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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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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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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