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 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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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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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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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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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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