We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTONIf I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
-
-
The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON -
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
AL SHARPTON -
I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
AL SHARPTON -
That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
AL SHARPTON -
I love theology and some philosophy.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON -
A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
AL SHARPTON -
I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
AL SHARPTON -
President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
AL SHARPTON -
Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON -
You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
AL SHARPTON -
On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
AL SHARPTON -
John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
AL SHARPTON -
I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
AL SHARPTON -
We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
AL SHARPTON -
We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
AL SHARPTON -
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 SHARPTON -
I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
AL SHARPTON -
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON -
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
AL SHARPTON -
And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
AL SHARPTON -
America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
AL SHARPTON