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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
Politician
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Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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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've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
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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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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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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.
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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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We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
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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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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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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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