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.
AL SHARPTONSo we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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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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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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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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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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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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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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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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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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