My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
AL SHARPTONAs a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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I`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.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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