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
We didn't come to lead a march. We came to follow the young people leading it.
We are seeing people from Iraq being treated better than people from New Orleans.
We're here today just like we gathered 41 years ago in Selma. We are here preparing to go across another bridge, a bridge that they stopped us on the night Katrina hit. But we come today to tell them that nobody is going to stop us from going across any bridge in America.
I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
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.
Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.
But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.