As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
AL SHARPTONI’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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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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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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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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