We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
AL SHARPTONIt seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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How do you make things fair?
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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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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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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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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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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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