This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
AL SHARPTONMy 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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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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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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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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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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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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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