Al Sharpton Quotes, Mother Quotes, Father Quotes

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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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

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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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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

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When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.

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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

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There 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. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

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We`re going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

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I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. 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. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.

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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

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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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When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

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I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

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

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