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.
AL SHARPTONBetter to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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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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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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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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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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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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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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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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