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.
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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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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If 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.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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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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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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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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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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