You deal with their balance over the long run.
AL SHARPTONThey didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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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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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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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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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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