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.
AL SHARPTONThe 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.
AL SHARPTONWe may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
AL SHARPTONIf I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
AL SHARPTONIf you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
AL SHARPTONThe Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
AL SHARPTONNational Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
AL SHARPTONIt does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
AL SHARPTONThere are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
AL SHARPTONEvangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
AL SHARPTONBaltimore is just embarking down this road.
AL SHARPTONSome issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
AL SHARPTONThis is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
AL SHARPTONI`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
AL SHARPTONIt 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.
AL SHARPTONI disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
AL SHARPTONWhen you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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