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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

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.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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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 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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