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Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

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Al Sharpton
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
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Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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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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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.
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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
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While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.
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One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district. The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.
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We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.
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I`m not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.
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I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!
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We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
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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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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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America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.
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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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It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.
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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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