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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
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Brooklyn
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Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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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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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 can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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John Lewis is an icon in our society.
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I`m deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states` rights rhetoric.
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I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
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I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.
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I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.
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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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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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When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
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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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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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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 need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.
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What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?
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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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The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
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When we look back at the last years of justice department, some of the most important work that will define its legacy is the work that was done to address the problem of policing reform. Almost two dozen investigations across the country over the last eight years into - not just Baltimore, but Chicago and Baltimore and New Orleans.
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