What 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.
AL SHARPTONYou can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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 haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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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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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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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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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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