Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
AL SHARPTONBetter to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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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 have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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How do you make things fair?
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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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.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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