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,
AL SHARPTONIt 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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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 have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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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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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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