Al Sharpton Quotes, Community Quotes, Kind Quotes

One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district. The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.

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We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

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White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... 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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

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The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

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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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How do you make things fair?

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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

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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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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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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

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You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

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