Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
AL SHARPTONBaltimore is just embarking down this road.
AL SHARPTONOn 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.
AL SHARPTONI remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.
AL SHARPTONThis is not a village of hate. It’s a village of hope. Don’t let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
AL SHARPTONI think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
AL SHARPTONDr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
AL SHARPTONAnd I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed.
AL SHARPTONI won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.
AL SHARPTONThere 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.
AL SHARPTONBetter to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
AL SHARPTONLet 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.
AL SHARPTONIt was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, “Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity,
AL SHARPTONDon’t talk to us like we ignint!
AL SHARPTONWe’re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we’re not willing to give them first chances.
AL SHARPTONBill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
AL SHARPTONMy 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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