Al Sharpton Quotes

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Al Sharpton

Profession : Activist

Birth : October 3, 1954

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

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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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We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder.

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In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.

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The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

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I've been able to reach from the streets to the suites.

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If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on 'religious grounds'? For that matter, will 'religious freedom' be used as an excuse to discriminate against other minorities and disenfranchised groups across the board? Where will it end?

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I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.

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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

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Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

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When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

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In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

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We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.

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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

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I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

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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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Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same officers. They are under extreme pressure from local police unions and from rank-and-file cops.

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My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.

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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

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

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