Al Sharpton Quotes

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• The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
• It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where…
• If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
• I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
• Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
• The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there…
• We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
• Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
• Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
• Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
• I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
• It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
• My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
• My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
• We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
• James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
• In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.
• 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…
• The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has…
• As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin.

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