The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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More Al Sharpton Quotes
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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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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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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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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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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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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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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 assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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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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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.
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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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 don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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