I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
AL SHARPTONI think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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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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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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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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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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