Quotes By Al Sharpton
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Al Sharpton
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Al Sharpton
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al Sharpton
I 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 Sharpton
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.
Al Sharpton