Al Sharpton Quotes - Page 3

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

I just released an op-ed in the "Washington Post" that talks about providing an I.D. so that everyone can have an I.D., primarily, the social security card, a picture would be put on that card, and a president can certainly by executive order make this happen so that people will not need a special I.D. They`ll have one to vote.

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

I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.

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

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.

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

Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

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

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

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

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

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.

I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.

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

I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.

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.

First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment. When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.

John Lewis is an icon in our society.

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.