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Al Sharpton
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
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Brooklyn
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Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.
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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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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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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 be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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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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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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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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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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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district. The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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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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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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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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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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