If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
From Al Sharpton
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.
I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'
I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.
In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.
I can call a march, and thousands come out, and I happen to have access to the White House at the same time.
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.
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