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.
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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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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