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As 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

Al Sharpton

A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
AL SHARPTON

Civil Elect Escalate Icon President Right War
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.
AL SHARPTON

Bring Challenge Constant Go Hear King People Something Spirit Together
And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
AL SHARPTON

Divide Nation Right Stronger Ultimate
We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
AL SHARPTON

Black March Problem Solve Still
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
AL SHARPTON

Care Constitution Grandma Health Rifle Right
We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
AL SHARPTON

Divide Forward Move
Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
AL SHARPTON

Cat Democrat Herd Organize
If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
AL SHARPTON

Cop Crime Gun Person Run Stand Store
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.
AL SHARPTON

Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way
The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
AL SHARPTON

Assumption Enough March People Protest Sense Stand
If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
AL SHARPTON

Got Holler Hoot Lowa Money Percent Spent
We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
AL SHARPTON

Believe Change Constitution Country Down Fundamental Need Real
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.
AL SHARPTON

Baltimore Department Engage Law Pattern Police Practice Right
I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
AL SHARPTON

Almost Black Go Grew Holiday
Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
AL SHARPTON

City Decrees Department Justice People Question Session Sued
John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
AL SHARPTON

Attack Consider Legitimate President Said Trump

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