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When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

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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
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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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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If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.
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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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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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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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If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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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 need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.
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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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