I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
AL SHARPTONWe blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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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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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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