Al Sharpton

How do you make things fair?

— Al Sharpton

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

— Al Sharpton

We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child…

— Al Sharpton

My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in…

— Al Sharpton

I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new…

— Al Sharpton

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police…

— Al Sharpton

You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough…

— Al Sharpton

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe…

— Al Sharpton

A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis…

— Al Sharpton

Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order…

— Al Sharpton

The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that…

— Al Sharpton

In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause…

— Al Sharpton

Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same…

— Al Sharpton

On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation's capital to protect the…

— Al Sharpton

In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have…

— Al Sharpton

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what…

— Al Sharpton

Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace…

— Al Sharpton

We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice;…

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

— Al Sharpton

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same…

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

— Al Sharpton

In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.

— Al Sharpton