Quotes By Al Sharpton

I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

I 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.