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 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.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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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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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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