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.
AL SHARPTONWe need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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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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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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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,
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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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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’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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I’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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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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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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