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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
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Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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.
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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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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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We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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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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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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 have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
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