I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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I’ve seen too much in life to give up.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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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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How do you make things fair?
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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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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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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 feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.
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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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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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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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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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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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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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