My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
AL SHARPTONWe don’t owe America anything – America owes us.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
-
-
During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
AL SHARPTON -
if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
AL SHARPTON -
The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
AL SHARPTON -
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
AL SHARPTON -
I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
AL SHARPTON -
I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
AL SHARPTON -
There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
AL SHARPTON -
I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
AL SHARPTON -
We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
AL SHARPTON -
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 SHARPTON -
The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
AL SHARPTON -
My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
AL SHARPTON -
First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON -
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.
AL SHARPTON