Al Sharpton Quotes
Top 77 wise famous quotes and sayings by Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Al Sharpton on Wise Famous Quotes.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.
This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
I've gone from, you know, being too close to politicians, to being too close to entertainers, and people's father that I'm not.
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.
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 you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time.
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.
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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 grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.
During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'
We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.