I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
AL SHARPTONIf I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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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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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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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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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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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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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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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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