It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
AL SHARPTONYou deal with their balance over the long run.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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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.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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