My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy.
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.
More Al Sharpton Quotes
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You hear anything? Oh, let’s run! It’s Virginia today!”…
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We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.
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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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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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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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I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty.
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It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.
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You can’t get a solution if you won’t talk to the people that have the problem.
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The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.
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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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I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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Some issues you just – you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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