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're going to use this Amadou Diallo case to stop this in these United States once and for all. Just like we needed the federal government to come into Alabama and Mississippi 30 years ago, we need the federal government to come into New York to deal with the police today.
Rosa Parks is in history because she made this nation deal with changing the laws and policies of this nation unlike anybody else.
I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.
I can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.
Following Michael Brown's death, I went to Ferguson and met with his parents. I stood with them as they tried to hold their heads high and deal with both their immense loss and the larger issues of police-community relations.
Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S.
I think that one of the responsible ways of making decisions is to talk to the people that you both have struggled with. We want to see Bush defeated, but we also want to see our constituency dealt with. And how that will play out, we'll know in the next day or so.
Not only are we now getting convictions of police on misconduct, but actually for the conspiracy. This is a real blow to the blue wall of silence.
I'm not interested in being Archie Bunker, I'm looking forward to becoming George Bush.
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
It is the responsibility of everybody to stand up against people that are biased and racist and see them for the cowards that they are.
It seemed like what he ignored was the weapons of mass destruction in America -- broken levees in New Orleans are weapons of mass destruction, Mr. Bush.
We want arrests. We want indictments. We want prosecution.
We want all of these policeman to face justice.