This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
AL SHARPTONI`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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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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.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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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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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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