The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
AL SHARPTONI wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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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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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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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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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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