Diplomat Quotes
Who defines terrorists? Today`s terrorist is tomorrow`s friend.
Al Sharpton
We`re not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we`re not willing to give them first chances.
Al Sharpton
We`re not anti-police... we`re anti-police brutality.
Al Sharpton
We would view with the greatest possible concern any such event, ... It would do Indonesia immense, perhaps irreparable damage.
Richard Holbrooke
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
Al Sharpton
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
Al Sharpton
We are in a very grim situation, and everybody knows how serious it is. We are not anywhere near a point where everyone can be satisfied on either side.
Richard Holbrooke
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
Al Sharpton
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
Al Sharpton
The U.N. by contrast is sterile, overly concerned with protocol, overly formal, filled with set-piece speeches. This is what the U.N. in theory is supposed to be but can`t.
Richard Holbrooke
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
Al Sharpton
The Indonesian military is still paying these people, still encouraging them, ... These are real thugs, and they have to be dealt with.
Richard Holbrooke
The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy,
Richard Holbrooke
The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
Al Sharpton
One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children`s childhoods is that I`m having my first childhood myself.
Al Sharpton
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
Al Sharpton
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
Al Sharpton
My ministry`s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
Al Sharpton
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.
Al Sharpton
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Al Sharpton
It is a struggle of great historic consequence. Indonesia is one of the most important countries in the world, the world`s third largest democracy,
Richard Holbrooke
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
Al Sharpton
If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
Al Sharpton
If women in the developing world do not have equal rights, they will not have equal health, ... It is as simple as that; the empowerment of women is not a politically-correct cliché, but a living, essential goal for everyone.
Richard Holbrooke
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
Al Sharpton
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can`t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
Al Sharpton
I`ve seen too much in life to give up.
Al Sharpton
I`ve seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
Al Sharpton
I`ve never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
Al Sharpton
I`m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
Al Sharpton