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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

Al Sharpton

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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
Politician
Radio Personality
Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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Wrestle
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We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.
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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.
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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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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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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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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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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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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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Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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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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Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
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I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
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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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I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
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America can't work for only some people and become a dream for all people. It has to work for everyone. And even though everyone might not end up at the same place, if everyone starts with the same beginning, then that's the dream fulfilled. We all don't have the same abilities, but we should have the same opportunities.
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