Al Sharpton's Profile
Brief about Al Sharpton: By info that we know Al Sharpton was born at 1954-10-03. And also Al Sharpton is American Politician.
Some Al Sharpton's quotes. Goto "Al Sharpton's quotation" section for more.I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Tags: Done, Else, LifeIf you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
Tags: CauseIt seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Tags: Ignore, Seems, VisionJames Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Tags: Father, Son, TalkMy ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
Tags: Involved, Order, SocialMy ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
Tags: Age, God, TodayNational Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
Tags: Action, Country, GroupOne of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
Tags: Childhood, Children, JoyThe boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
Tags: Boxing, Corruption, FullThe right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Tags: Bear, Prayer, SchoolThe United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
Tags: Country, Government, YoungThe United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
Tags: Creating, Policy, UnitedWe need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
Tags: Amendment, Government, VoteWe're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
Tags: Black, Give, SecondI 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.
Tags: Family, Life, MomThe dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
Tags: Black, Family, PutWe're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
Tags: BrutalityIt 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.
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