It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker,… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a… — 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