I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
AL SHARPTONWhile the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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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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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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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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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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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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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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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.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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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.
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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 just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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 always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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