We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
AL SHARPTONIf I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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 blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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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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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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