I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
AL SHARPTONSo (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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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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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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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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I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.
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If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I’d still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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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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How do you make things fair?
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That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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You can’t ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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