I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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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`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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