During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
AL SHARPTONDr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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I’m projected as an ambulance chaser, but I’m more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come…. I have never fought a case where they didn’t ask me to come.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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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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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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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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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
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The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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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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