“When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.”

I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.

You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.

if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

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.

One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.

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.

If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.

A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.

The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.