So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
Al SharptonWe blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.
Al SharptonDr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Al SharptonI was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.
Al Sharpton