I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
AL SHARPTONI just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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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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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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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.
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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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