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.
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.
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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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Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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I’m willing to make some sacrifices.” And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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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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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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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.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
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