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Al Sharpton
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
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Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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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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There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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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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As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business none of us should stand in their way
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I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
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I just released an op-ed in the Washington Post that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card, a picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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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 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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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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