A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
AL SHARPTONAnd we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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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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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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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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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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