I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
AL SHARPTONI think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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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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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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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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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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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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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 have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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How do you make things fair?
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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