First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
AL SHARPTONI wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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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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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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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.
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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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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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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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