White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONWhite folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONI 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.
AL SHARPTONWe need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
AL SHARPTONWe just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
AL SHARPTONWe 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.
AL SHARPTONI’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
AL SHARPTONAnd 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.
AL SHARPTONJames Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
AL SHARPTONMy ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
AL SHARPTONSo (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
AL SHARPTONI think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.
AL SHARPTONI am in hell already. I am in Israel.
AL SHARPTONI won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
AL SHARPTONIt 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.
AL SHARPTONWe’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
AL SHARPTONDonald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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