Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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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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We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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