I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
AL SHARPTONA 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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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 am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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How do you make things fair?
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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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There 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.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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