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

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Al Sharpton
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
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Television Presenter
Brooklyn
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Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
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We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.
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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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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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First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment. When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
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John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.
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This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.
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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.
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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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We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
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If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.
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My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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