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 SHARPTONWe need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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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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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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How do you make things fair?
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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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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