White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONAs I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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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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