I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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
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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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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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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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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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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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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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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’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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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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They 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.
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