National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
AL SHARPTONI’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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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How do you make things fair?
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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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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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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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 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 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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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