Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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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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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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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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This 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.
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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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How do you make things fair?
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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