Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton
Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton Jr.is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a trusted White House adviser who, according to 60 Minutes, has become President Barack Obama's "go-to black leader." In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. In 2011, he was named the host of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth3 October 1954
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
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.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way
I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.
I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
It 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.
Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.