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.
AL SHARPTONThat ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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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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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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