As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
AL SHARPTONI have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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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 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.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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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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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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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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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
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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