Al Sharpton Quotes, Loss Quotes, Media Quotes

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

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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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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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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

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I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

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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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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

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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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John Lewis being attacked as "talk, talk, talk" by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.

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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. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.

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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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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

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I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

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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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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. 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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We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

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