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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
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Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.
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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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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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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.
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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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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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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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People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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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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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
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