I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
AL SHARPTONIt does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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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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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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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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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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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 grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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