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Al Sharpton
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
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Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.
Al Sharpton
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.
Al Sharpton
I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
Al Sharpton
I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
Al Sharpton
I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.
Al Sharpton
Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.
Al Sharpton
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.
Al Sharpton
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
Al Sharpton
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.
Al Sharpton
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
Al Sharpton
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
Al Sharpton
When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.
Al Sharpton
Don't talk to us like we ignint!
Al Sharpton
Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.
Al Sharpton
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.
Al Sharpton
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Al Sharpton
On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.
Al Sharpton
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.
Al Sharpton
Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.
Al Sharpton
Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
Al Sharpton