Al Sharpton quotes

  1. Home
  2. Al Sharpton quotes
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
Argument
Commitment
Day
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
Al Sharpton
Son
Now
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Al Sharpton
Vision
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
Father
Son
Talk
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
Al Sharpton
Activism
Order
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Al Sharpton
Prayer
Right
School