My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONI 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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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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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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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