White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONI`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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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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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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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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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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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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