We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTONThe Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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