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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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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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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
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I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.
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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
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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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We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.
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America can't work for only some people and become a dream for all people. It has to work for everyone. And even though everyone might not end up at the same place, if everyone starts with the same beginning, then that's the dream fulfilled. We all don't have the same abilities, but we should have the same opportunities.
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I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
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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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National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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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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Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.
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