This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
AL SHARPTONWe must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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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.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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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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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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