I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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How do you make things fair?
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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