I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
AL SHARPTONThere are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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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 job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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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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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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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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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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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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