Al Sharpton Quotes

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• The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
• As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society…
• National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
• 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…
• Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
• Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
• I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience…
• I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,
• They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more…
• What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.
• I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
• Don't talk to us like we ignint!
• We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
• If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should…
• Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
• I've seen too much in life to give up.
• I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
• I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
• If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
• I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning…

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