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.
AL SHARPTONThe job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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How do you make things fair?
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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