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.
AL SHARPTONSome issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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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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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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