Al Sharpton

The Reverend Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American politician, minister, and civil rights activist. A Pentecostal, Sharpton was the first major black presidential candidate of the 21st century to run for the Democratic Party nomination, doing so in 2004.

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"I mean, Dwight Eisenhower was never elected to anything before he was elected president.... In a time that we no longer have a Cold War, there is no real threat to American security."

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— on Fox News August 2001 (a month prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks)

Related Topics:
Fox News - 9/11

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"Now that they have achieved the capture of Hussein, they should appeal to the UN to come in with a multilateral redevelopment plan. This is all the more reason this war should come to an immediate end."

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"I believe something happened to Tawana Brawley.... I think it is absurd that someone would say that a 15-year-old girl could have made all that up, including fooling a hospital."

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— regarding the 1987 Tawana Brawley scandal, later shown to be a hoax

Related Topics:
1987 - Tawana Brawley - Hoax

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"Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. We were the ones that worked with Saddam Hussein. The United States worked with bin Laden."

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"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.

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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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— Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention referring to the slave compensation commonly known as 40 acres and a mule.

Related Topics:
2004 Democratic National Convention - 40 acres and a mule

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"But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody."

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— Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention

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"I suggest to you tonight that if George Bush had selected the court in '54, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school."

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—Address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention

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"Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining."

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—To Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, after remarks Fox made that seemed to disparage African Americans

Related Topics:
Vicente Fox - Mexico - African Americans

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