I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
AL SHARPTONThat ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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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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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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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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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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