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.
Al SharptonPeople in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.
Al SharptonI very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al SharptonIt is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
Al Sharpton