I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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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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Senator [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.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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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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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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