I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
AL SHARPTONWe 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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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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.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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