I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
AL SHARPTONThere are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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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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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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