People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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How do you make things fair?
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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