The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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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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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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Who defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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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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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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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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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight.
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I’ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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 think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.
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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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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 resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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