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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
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
Politician
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Television Presenter
Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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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 think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
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I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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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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John Lewis being attacked as talk, talk, talk by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.
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The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.
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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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So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.
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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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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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People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.
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I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
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