People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
AL SHARPTONThat ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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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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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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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 need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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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