I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
AL SHARPTONThe 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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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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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 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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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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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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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.
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