Al Sharpton Quotes (72 Quotes)


    I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

    I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.

    I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

    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.

    We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.


    Brown became like a father figure to me who insisted I live the life of a monk, let alone a minister. I had to stay in the hotel he stayed in, stay in my room, and he would almost select my girlfriends. He was very adamant that he had promised my mother that I would not go wayward on the road, and he enforced it. So even though I knew the entertainment world, I was not of the entertainment world -- and not by any choice of my own. He promised my mother that he'd make sure I was never on drugs, that I never lost my head, and that he'd take care of me himself. And he did.

    I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

    If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

    We're here today just like we gathered 41 years ago in Selma. We are here preparing to go across another bridge, a bridge that they stopped us on the night Katrina hit. But we come today to tell them that nobody is going to stop us from going across any bridge in America.

    I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

    We cannot afford to put billions of dollars into foreign adventures while we watch schools crumble in the United States.

    Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

    This is no time for bowing and scraping. This is no time for buck dancing and genuflecting. Our people are dying in Iraq, are being drowned in New Orleans, and you're going to sit around scared

    Broken levees are weapons of mass destruction.

    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.

    but I also see him evolving into a new generation.


    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.

    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.

    It seemed like what he ignored was the weapons of mass destruction in America -- broken levees in New Orleans are weapons of mass destruction, Mr. Bush.

    My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

    We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

    National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

    During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

    The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

    The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

    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.

    Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

    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

    We're going to use this Amadou Diallo case to stop this in these United States once and for all. Just like we needed the federal government to come into Alabama and Mississippi 30 years ago, we need the federal government to come into New York to deal with the police today.

    This is outright slaughter. If he was facing a firing squad, he would not have been shot 41 times.

    If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

    We're going to show up and turn around this country. This is not the end of the day, this is the beginning of a regeneration of a movement.

    Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

    The civil rights movement and the peace movement was not made from big names ... and I wanted to come on the anniversary with ordinary people that are doing what I think Dr. King would have wanted us to do today.

    The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

    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.

    The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

    It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

    I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

    Not only are we now getting convictions of police on misconduct, but actually for the conspiracy. This is a real blow to the blue wall of silence.

    I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

    Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

    If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

    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.

    It is good that one guy resigned. But we don't want resignations. We want arrests. We want prosecution.

    Rosa Parks is in history because she made this nation deal with changing the laws and policies of this nation unlike anybody else.

    I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

    I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

    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.


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