White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
AL SHARPTONWho defines terrorists? Today’s terrorist is tomorrow’s friend.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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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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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
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People have this picture like I’m sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. “You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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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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The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.
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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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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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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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We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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