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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More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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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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