I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
AL SHARPTONWe have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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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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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he’s seeing a crime. He’s not seeing a person standing.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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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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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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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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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 think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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