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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More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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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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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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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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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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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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How do you make things fair?
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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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