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I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

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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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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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.
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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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I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
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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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The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.
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Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
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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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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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