I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
AL SHARPTONThe United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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