I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
AL SHARPTONI’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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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 not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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