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I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
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Human Rights Activist
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
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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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There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.
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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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Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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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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I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.
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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
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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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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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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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Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
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James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
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I think that what we want to do as we continue to move forward is look at the various points that have been made.We`re looking forward to the appointment of a monitor so that we can continue to do some of the things that we`ve been doing.
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