QUOTES by Al Sharpton
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I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'
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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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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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We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
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One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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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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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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I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
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I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
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I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
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I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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