If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONWhat I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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