Al Sharpton Quotes

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

So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

I'm not as concerned about what Mr. [Jeff] Sessions expressed, except for the fact that he did say that, you know, these things would be enforced.

We're going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

I'm deeply concerned about Jeff Sessions, who has clearly expressed opposition to the use of consent decrees and has advanced a lot of this states' rights rhetoric.

The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

Don't talk to us like we ignint!

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don't have to denigrate others.

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

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

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

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

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.

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.

How do you make things fair?

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

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.

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

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

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

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.

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

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

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

The unfortunate part is there's not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.