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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.

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
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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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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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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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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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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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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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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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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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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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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