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Favorite Al Sharpton Quotes

1. "If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are." ~ Al Sharpton
2. "We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality." ~ Al Sharpton
3. "If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?" ~ Al Sharpton
4. "I've seen too much in life to give up." ~ Al Sharpton
5. "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
6. "I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining." ~ Al Sharpton
7. "Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend." ~ Al Sharpton
8. "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
9. "We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire." ~ Al Sharpton
10. "Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance." ~ Al Sharpton
11. "Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls." ~ Al Sharpton
12. "If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up." ~ Al Sharpton
13. "How do you make things fair?" ~ Al Sharpton
14. "I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything." ~ Al Sharpton
15. "I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag." ~ Al Sharpton
16. "The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption." ~ Al Sharpton
17. "Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era." ~ Al Sharpton
18. "During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians." ~ Al Sharpton
19. "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." ~ Al Sharpton
20. "I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan." ~ Al Sharpton
21. "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

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