Al Sharpton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,”
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“I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.”
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“We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.”
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“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 this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.”
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“I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.”
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“If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.”
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“If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”
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“I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.”
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“Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.”
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“I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.”
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“But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.”
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“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 the patient is left out of the operation room.”
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“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 rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”
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“I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.”
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“When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.”
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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.”
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“It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.”
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“White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
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“People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.”
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“I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.”
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“As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.”
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“I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.”
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“If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?”
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“Don't talk to us like we ignint!”
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“I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.”
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“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 marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.”
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“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 the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.”
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“I believed there was enough evidence to go to trial. Grand jury said there wasn’t. Okay, fine. Do I have a right to disagree with the grand jury? Many Americans believe O.J. Simpson was guilty. A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.”
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“Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.”
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