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.
AL SHARPTONWe need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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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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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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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’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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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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