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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.

Al Sharpton

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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Age Baptist Christ Church God Later Minister Ordination
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.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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Dead Deal Drug End Man Reject Unarm
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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Age Dress People President Sure
The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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Activist Cause Change Job People Social Tense
I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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Country Everyone Order People President Provide Release
I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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Boost City Down Investment Monetary Show Some Symbolic Think
I love theology and some philosophy.
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Love Philosophy Some Theology
They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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Broke Gangster Home Hoodlum President Run States United
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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Architecture Before Built Ever Got Knew Mathematics Over Philosophy Pyramind Taught
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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Anymore Color Drug More People Think
I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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