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 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’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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 remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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