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I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
Al Sharpton
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I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
Al Sharpton
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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
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I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
Al Sharpton
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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
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
Al Sharpton
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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton
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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
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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.
Al Sharpton
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My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
Al Sharpton
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I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
Al Sharpton
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During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
Al Sharpton
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Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
Al Sharpton
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