I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
AL SHARPTONIf 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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 must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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 am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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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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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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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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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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