I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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 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.
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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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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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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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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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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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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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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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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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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’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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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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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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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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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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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 dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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