What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
AL SHARPTONAmerica has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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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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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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And I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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