I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
AL SHARPTONWhite folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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I think that you can’t choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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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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How do you make things fair?
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Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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People in the age of [President] Obama don’t dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That’s for sure.
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Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I’m being effective, because I’m not trying to make them comfortable.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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