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.
AL SHARPTONWe’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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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 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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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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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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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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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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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