262 Quotes by Al Sharpton

How do you make things fair?

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.

My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.