When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
AL SHARPTONWe never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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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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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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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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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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