My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
AL SHARPTONFirst and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment.
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I love theology and some philosophy.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.
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They didn’t have to be a hoodlum, they didn’t have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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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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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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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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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Every victim calls us…. “Who put Sharpton in charge?” The victim!
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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You deal with their balance over the long run.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,
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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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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 that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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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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We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was … we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
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There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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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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