We 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.
AL SHARPTONI’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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