Quotes By Al Sharpton

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

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.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. 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. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.