“Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!”

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.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.

We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.

You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.

I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.