I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
AL SHARPTONMy ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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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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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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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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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.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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 understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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