We’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
AL SHARPTONThe congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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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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Dr. King’s general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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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’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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I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don’t want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s 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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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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