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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.

Al Sharpton

The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
AL SHARPTON

Assumption Enough March People Protest Sense Stand
I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
AL SHARPTON

Bring Challenge Constant Go Hear King People Something Spirit Together
America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
AL SHARPTON

Better Place Country Make Participate
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.
AL SHARPTON

Cop Crime Gun Person Run Stand Store
I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.
AL SHARPTON

Boycott Effective Seen Work
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
AL SHARPTON

Anymore Color Drug More People Think
Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.
AL SHARPTON

Family Life Subway Value Young
We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTON

Anti Brutality Police
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
AL SHARPTON

Country Educate Education Government Obligation People Young
Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
AL SHARPTON

Commitment King Passive Person Resistance
I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
AL SHARPTON

Advance Appear Clearly Consent Express Right Session State Use
The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
AL SHARPTON

Anyone Freak Iowa Month Stop Two
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.
AL SHARPTON

Absolute Advocate Believe City People Consent Decree Department Police Right Thing
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.
AL SHARPTON

Acre After Commitment Emancipation Give Mute Proclamation Sign True
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.
AL SHARPTON

Ambulance Ask Come Fought More People Project Run
And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
AL SHARPTON

Divide Nation Right Stronger Ultimate

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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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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