The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
AL SHARPTONA jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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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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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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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How do you make things fair?
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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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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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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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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