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.
AL SHARPTONLife is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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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’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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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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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 must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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