Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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