I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
AL SHARPTONI think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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