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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

Al Sharpton

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.
AL SHARPTON

Appointment Concern Figure Look Nation Represent Some Together
You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
AL SHARPTON

People Problem Solution Talk
People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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Arena Concert Depend People Two Work
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.
AL SHARPTON

Acre Decide Donkey Far never Ride Take Way
When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
AL SHARPTON

Boycott Deal Effective Enough Everyone Need
As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
AL SHARPTON

Child Could Ghetto Governor Hope Look President Ran State Walk Across
It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
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Better Brutal Cincinnati Continual Dignity Economic Person Police Problem Ride Say Shame Walk
What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
AL SHARPTON

Denounce Interpol White Wrong
We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
AL SHARPTON

Divide Forward Move
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
AL SHARPTON

Crow Deal Defeat Esquire Son
My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
AL SHARPTON

Activism Dealer Drug Involve Level Ministry Order Responsible Social Some Think
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.
AL SHARPTON

Before Community Country English Fight Language Look Preach Test
People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
AL SHARPTON

Age Dress People President Sure
I just released an op-ed in the “Washington Post” that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card.
AL SHARPTON

Country Everyone Order People President Provide Release
John Lewis being attacked as “talk, talk, talk” by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
AL SHARPTON

Attack Consider Legitimate President Said Trump
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
AL SHARPTON

Anymore Color Drug More People Think

This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

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This is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

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