We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
AL SHARPTONHaiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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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 love theology and some philosophy.
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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`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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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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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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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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