A march to the sea wouldn't have done Dr. King much good.
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
Everybody grows. And I think everybody has certain turning points.
How can you give Giuliani credit for community policing when he inherited it? He didn't institute that.
How do you make things fair?
I am the youngest candidate in the race with the longest progressive record.
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 don't think the American voters are that unwise.
I go to schools today and I'm amazed at how few students are politically involved.
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.
I had never, until I was 10 years old, lived in a house my parents didn't own.
I have been guilty of letting ungodly things around me.
I may not be of King's stature, but I am in his tradition.
I reflected about in the hospital, after my stabbing, that I should discipline myself.
I remember seeing Nat King Cole go on. And Ed Sullivan was the epitome of American television at that time.
I think a lot of people got complacent; they assumed we'd arrived in certain way.
I think some people got overwhelmed during the Reagan years-they thought they couldn't fight back, that it was useless. People gave up.
I think the only abuse I got was when I was around 10 and my parents separated. You'd hear the taunts and whispers.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
I was able to tear the veil off racism in New York. The civil rights issues of the 1950s and '60s never reached New York as a movement.
I was in a housing project where people were stacked up on top of one another. I knew that there was a better life than this.
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
I was the youth leader of Operation Breadbasket with Jesse Jackson when I was 14.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
I would talk to James Brown about a girlfriend, or what clothes to buy.
I'd never been in a community where the garbage wasn't picked up on time, where the police didn't come if you called.
I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.
I'm in the race because I believe there needs to be a fundamental shift in the direction of the country.
I'm reading the Chris Darden book right now. I met him on my book tour, and he gave me a copy of his book.
I've had to deal with the media in ways he didn't. I'm dealing with different ethnic groups that King didn't have to deal with.
I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.
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've seen too much in life to give up.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
In the music industry you meet people who just run through towns meeting a woman a day and dropping them like they were Kleenex.
In the South, blacks were blacks and whites were whites. In the North, blacks are Caribbean, African, Dominican, Southern.
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
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.
Katherine Harris said, You've got two hours to count the vote. Oops, vote count over.
Many black kids are killed, but the reason people will remember Howard Beach or Bensonhurst is that we built a movement around it.
Many of those who preach their limited view of Christianity do so inside so-called megachurches throughout the South.
Most Americans are not voting at all.
Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
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.
One thing people never talked about, after the marches, was how we were able to take such hostility and not respond.
That was the era I grew up in. Everybody was into something.
The 2004 election is not just about a new director, it's about a new direction.
The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
The stabbing, for me, was a turning point. It's time to go to the next step.
The trouble wasn't our protest. The trouble was going into Iraq for weapons we still can't find.
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
There wasn't the same culture of meanness that you see today.
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
We must have a president that sees it as his duty to protect the rights of the citizens and open the doors equally toward opportunity.
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
We're not willing to give them second chances because we're not willing to give them first chances.
We've got to understand that all of us were in that car.
What I'm doing now would not have appeared extreme in the 1960s.
What we were doing is just what King did.
Whites are Irish, they're Italian, they're Jewish. It's not just black and white like in the South.
Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.
Why did officers fire 50 rounds at three unarmed men?
You have more police brutality complaints now than you've had in the past decade.
You have to always prove yourself, you always have to establish your credentials.
You sent the Secretary of State to the United Nations showing tapes and audiotapes of things that you've not been able to produce.
The issue of government is not to determine who may sleep together in the bedroom, it's to help those that might not be eating in the kitchen." - At the 2004 Democratic National Convention
We are the royal family of the planet. We are the original man. We gazed into the stars and wrote astrology. We had a conversation and that became philosophy. God is on our side." (speaking about black people at rally in Crown Heights in 1991
He is the basis for the character "Reverend Bacon" in the novel and film The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).
Introduced Michael Jackson at James Brown's funeral, telling the crowd: "I don't care what the media says tonight, James Brown wanted Michael Jackson with him here today. He said ... 'I love Michael.' He said, 'Tell him don't worry about coming home. They always scandalize those that have the talent." (30 December 2006).
His ancestors were owned by relatives of the late Senator Strom Thurmond.
Son of Rev. Alfred Charles Sharpton, Sr. (born in Florida, circa 1926, living in Orlando, Florida, in 2004) and wife Ada (born 1925).
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