They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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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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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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