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.
AL SHARPTONWe’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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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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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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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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