Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
AL SHARPTONWe blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
-
-
I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
AL SHARPTON -
I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
AL SHARPTON -
I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
AL SHARPTON -
So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
AL SHARPTON -
I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
AL SHARPTON -
If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTON -
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
AL SHARPTON -
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON -
First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
AL SHARPTON -
My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTON -
We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
AL SHARPTON -
We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
AL SHARPTON -
John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
AL SHARPTON