As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
AL SHARPTONWhen you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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 just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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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 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.
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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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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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