We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
AL SHARPTONWe`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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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.
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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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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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