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Al Sharpton
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
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Television Presenter
Brooklyn
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Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.
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I am in hell already. I am in Israel.
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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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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
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Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.
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I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.
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I've seen too much in life to give up.
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I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
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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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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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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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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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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.
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We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
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I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.
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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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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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The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.
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