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.
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More Al Sharpton Quotes
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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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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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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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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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So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
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As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn’t have to be a drug dealer.
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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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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.
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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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