We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
AL SHARPTONIf Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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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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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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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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 just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
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