As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
AL SHARPTONWe need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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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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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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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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