And 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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More Al Sharpton Quotes
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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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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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`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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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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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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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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