262 Quotes by Al Sharpton

The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.

This is outright slaughter. If he was facing a firing squad, he would not have been shot 41 times.

Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies.

It is wrong that people are dying as we speak with no stated reason.

As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin.

It is the height of hypocrisy for George Bush and others to mourn a human rights leader and scorn the movement she represents. It's ironic that someone who supports wiretapping will be here among the people who were victims of wiretapping in the 1960s.

I actually lost more weight than I am!

Don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

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