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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.

Al Sharpton

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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
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Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.
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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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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 do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
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How do you make things fair?
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
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On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
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Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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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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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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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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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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We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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