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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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Al Sharpton
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 3
Film Actor
Human Rights Activist
Minister
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Brooklyn
New York
Alfred Charles Al Sharpton
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