Al Sharpton Quotes

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

So 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.

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

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 do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

John Lewis is an icon in our society.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating.

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.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

The Democratic Party hasn't whipped anybody into a frenzy. The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don't have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

One of the things that`s offensive is saying in the fifth district there`s nothing going on. This is a very vast district. The congressman happens to represent me. And while there are always more things that we can do in every community, this is a very diverse district with all kinds of wonderful things.

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

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.