We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
AL SHARPTONWhite folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.
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 just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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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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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`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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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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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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A picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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The GOP’s freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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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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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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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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You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.
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As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.
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