Al Sharpton: Quotes about people

Al Sharpton is American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and television/radio talk show host. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“I'll know how outraged I am when I know how many black people were on those flights.”

Attributed as a remark on The O'Reilly Factor on 13 October 2002. There was no episode of "The O'Reilly Factor" on this date.
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“Tawana Brawley told her story many months before I got involved—and many others got involved, Bill Cosby, and many others, who have never refuted the story. I don't refute it now. I believe … something happened to Tawana Brawley.… There is a problem in this country, that a lot of people don’t believe women. A lot of people don’t believe young women. I took the risk, as I have in most of the civil rights cases I have fought, to stand up for the victim. In this particular case, a jury did not believe her.”

NBC's Meet the Press (25 August 2002).

“There is a systemic and methodical strategy to eliminate our people from doing business off 125th Street. I want to make it clear … that we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.”

On the Freddy's Fashion Mart incident, as quoted in National Review (20 March 2000) http://www.nationalreview.com/20Mar00/nordlinger032000.html.

“I'm projected as an ambulance chaser, but I'm more the ambulance. People call me because they know I will come.… I have never fought a case where they didn't ask me to come. People have this picture like I'm sitting up in bed at night with a walkie-talkie. "You hear anything? Oh, let's run! It's Virginia today!"… Every victim calls us.… "Who put Sharpton in charge?"”

The victim!
Interview by David Shankbone (3 December 2007).