I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
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… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
When a mother or father is willing to pay smugglers and risk the lives of their own children by sending them on a dangerous… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
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… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image