As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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