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.
Al SharptonSo (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 SharptonI've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al SharptonWe've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.
Al Sharpton