We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
AL SHARPTONBetter to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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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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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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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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