Al Sharpton Quotes (72 Quotes)

It is the height of hypocrisy for George Bush and others to mourn a human rights leader and scorn the movement she represents. It's ironic that someone who supports wiretapping will be here among the people who were victims of wiretapping in the 1960s.

I think clearly it was the right thing to do if we're committed to defeating Bloomberg. This shows the strength of our community.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

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.

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.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

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.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

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.

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

What made the 1963 march is that we passed the 1964 civil rights bills, ... The success of this march will be that we take charge of our communities and make a difference in the 2006 elections.

She was truly the first lady of the human rights movement. The only thing worse than losing her is if we never had her.

I wrestled with this, even over the last few days, as I sat and stood and walked in Louisiana, where I saw people ravaged, lives torn. I thought about the fact that we need a man that's strong enough to bring us through 911 but compassionate enough that if Katrina hits, will make sure that poor people are not the scapegoats of a natural disaster.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

It is wrong that people are dying as we speak with no stated reason.

You ought to make one commitment in her name to yourself. You ought to resolve that you are going to do something that makes a difference because we're here because she made a difference.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.