The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
AL SHARPTONThen 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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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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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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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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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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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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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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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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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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