Al Sharpton Quotes

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

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

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• I’ve seen too much in life to give up.

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

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

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• I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• How do you make things fair?

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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Birth:	3rd October, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Anchor, Baptist

About

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, to Ada and Alfred Charles Sharpton, Sr. He preached his first sermon at the age of four and toured with gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. In 1963 Sharpton's father left his wife to have a relationship with Al Sharpton's half-sister. Ada Sharpton took a job as a maid, but her income was so low that the family qualified for welfare and had to move from middle class Hollis, Queens, to the public housing projects in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. Sharpton graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, and attended Brooklyn College, dropping out after two years in 1975. He became a tour manager for James Brown in 1973.

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