One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
AL SHARPTONIf you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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