I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
AL SHARPTONI’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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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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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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 grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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