I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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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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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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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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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.
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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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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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