So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
AL SHARPTONThis is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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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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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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