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It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
- Al Sharpton
#Chosen
#Forgotten
#Ignore
#King
#Vision
I've been able to reach from the streets to the suites.
- Al Sharpton
#Able
#Been
#Reach
#Streets
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
#Black
#Everything
#Family
#House
#White
I've seen too much in life to give up.
- Al Sharpton
#Life
#Seen
#Too Much
#Too
#Up
It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.
- Al Sharpton
#Change
#Police
#Rest
#Society
#Vote
In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors for highway construction projects. We went at dawn on a summer day with over a thousand people and performed acts of civil disobedience.
- Al Sharpton
#Construction
#Dawn
#Day
#Failure
#King
The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.
- Al Sharpton
#Country
#Day
#Death
#Done
#Election
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
- Al Sharpton
#Commitment
#Dr
#King
#Resistance
#Used
Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.
- Al Sharpton
#Day
#Goals
#Island
#Situation
#Work
I knew from the age of four that I wanted to preach. I didn't even consider it strange that grown people were listening to this kid preaching until I was around thirteen. I have never believed in limitations.
- Al Sharpton
#Age
#Listening
#Never
#People
#Strange
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
- Al Sharpton
#Back
#Bush
#House
#White House
#White
If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
- Al Sharpton
#Find
#Get
#Real
#Trouble
#Who
My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do.
- Al Sharpton
#Children
#Government
#Own
#Picture
#Time
When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.
- Al Sharpton
#Great
#People
#Romantic
#Sacrifice
#Work
In Staten Island, when you have video showing the alleged chokehold used on Eric Garner, why not go to trial and have the officer(s) explain the tape, and then this jury can determine guilt or innocence? The tape should guarantee that there should be a trial.
- Al Sharpton
#Explain
#Go
#Guilt
#Innocence
#Why
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
- Al Sharpton
#Guy
#Lead
#Me
#Polls
#Wherever
Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.
- Al Sharpton
#Bad
#Believe
#I Believe That
#Me
#Police
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
#Campaign
#High
#Meet
#Right
#Time
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
#Corner
#Enough
#Know
#Sun
#Will
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
#Age
#Church
#God
#I Am
#Today
From racial profiling and being pulled over just for 'driving while black' to this new phenomenon of killing unarmed people out of some preconceived idea of fear, our lives and our children's lives are not being valued.
- Al Sharpton
#Black
#Children
#Fear
#New
#People
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
- Al Sharpton
#Deal
#Defeated
#Jim Crow
#Now
#Son
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
- Al Sharpton
#Days
#Discrimination
#Long
#Society
#Way
We cannot reform institutional racism or systemic policies if we are not actively engaged. It's not enough to simply complain about injustice; the only way to prevent future injustice is to create the society we would like to see, one where we are all equal under the law.
- Al Sharpton
#Future
#Injustice
#Law
#Society
#Way
In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.
- Al Sharpton
#Everyone
#Fair
#Justice
#Order
#Peace
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
- Al Sharpton
#Brutality
I always beat the sun up in the morning. It's the secret to why I'm double trouble.
- Al Sharpton
#Beat
#Morning
#Sun
#Trouble
#Why
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.
- Al Sharpton
#Chance
#Education
#Goals
#Happiness
#Why
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.
- Al Sharpton
#Family
#Food
#Life
#Mom
#Ride
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