If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
AL SHARPTONWe 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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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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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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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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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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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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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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