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 SHARPTONI think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.
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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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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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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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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