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.
AL SHARPTONI remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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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.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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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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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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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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