My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONPresident Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.
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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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Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,
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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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Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.
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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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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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