Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
AL SHARPTONAnd that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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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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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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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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How do you make things fair?
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