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This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

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
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President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
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I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
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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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My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.
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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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But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
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They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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