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I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

Al Sharpton

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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
Politician
Radio Personality
Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
Jr.
Truest
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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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 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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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
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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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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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