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Al Sharpton
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
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Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
Jr.
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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment. When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
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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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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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There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
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When the civil rights community raised a lot of concerns around the nomination of Mr. Sessions, Senator Sessions, one of the things was that he`s on record of saying things intrusive, like voting rights,that he doesn`t believe the federal government should interfere with local policing, almost like states` rights kind of rhetoric.
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I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.
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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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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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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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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.
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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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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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Don't talk to us like we ignint!
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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