“If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.”

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.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.

This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, “When is Al coming back?”

What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.