As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
AL SHARPTONAs I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
AL SHARPTONWe cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
AL SHARPTONIf I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONThe 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.
AL SHARPTONWe don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
AL SHARPTONWe must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
AL SHARPTONPresident Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
AL SHARPTONI think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
AL SHARPTONWhat’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
AL SHARPTONBetter to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
AL SHARPTONYou and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
AL SHARPTONGetting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
AL SHARPTONI love theology and some philosophy.
AL SHARPTONIf O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
AL SHARPTONSenator [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.
AL SHARPTONThe job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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