Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
AL SHARPTONWe’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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How do you make things fair?
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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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.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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