But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
AL SHARPTONThey tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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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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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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