It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
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 American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality. Al Sharpton American Politician More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
Many in our community have to live in fear of both the cops and the robbers. What concrete steps would you take to end police brutality and racial profiling? Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
At the Apollo, he asked me to come and stand in for him. He's like my father. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems -- let's march. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
[Others warned that the fight for equality was not over.] Let's not act like this is some memory, ... We still have work to do. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
I think that one of the responsible ways of making decisions is to talk to the people that you both have struggled with. We want to see Bush defeated, but we also want to see our constituency dealt with. And how that will play out, we'll know in the next day or so. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
We hope to appeal to all sides to try and have some type of truce or cease-fire. We are not on either side. We are on the side of getting help for the children -- medical care as well for those that have been displaced. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
You keep going after everything but who went after us, ... [His] head of missing persons, he can't find bin Laden. We don't know if Hussein is living or dead, and we can't find the weapons of mass destruction. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
The real loser is Rudy Giuliani, ... We proved how out of touch he is with the voters of New York. The issues of unemployment, police brutality and the schools not working are on the front burner. You can run, Rudy, but you can't hide. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0
I was very impressed with how mature he was for his age. Al Sharpton American Activist More Al Sharpton Quotes 0