As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.
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 SharptonSo 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.
Al SharptonWe're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
Al SharptonThe dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
Al Sharpton