I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
AL SHARPTONI feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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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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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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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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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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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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