It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
AL SHARPTONI always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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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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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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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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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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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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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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