“When he said he was going to stop the march and called it a hate march, I think that was very provocative. The Mayor's statements have created a climate that could possibly lead to some kind of confrontation.”

—  Al Sharpton

News conference (18 August 1999), prior to the second Million Youth March[citation needed]

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