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.
AL SHARPTONIt`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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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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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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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