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.
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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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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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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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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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 wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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