if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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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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