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.
AL SHARPTONI’ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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Don’t talk to us like we ignint!
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district.
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if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.
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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 disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.
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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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I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
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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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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work.
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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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