Quotes By Al Sharpton

How do you make things fair?

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

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

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.

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

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

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

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

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach "one language." No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.

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

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.