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 SHARPTONYou can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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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.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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