Al Sharpton Quotes - Page 4

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

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

Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

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

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

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

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

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.

One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district. The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.

John Lewis being attacked as "talk, talk, talk" by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.