Zitat des Tages von 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.
As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.
Countries around the world have their own immigration laws and methods of dealing with a recurring theme: desperate people searching for peace from volatile parts of the world. And nations everywhere thrive and prosper from the contributions of immigrants and the children of immigrants - including right here in the U.S.
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag.
If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are.
If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
I've been able to reach from the streets to the suites.
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
I've seen too much in life to give up.
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
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've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?
During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.
If companies can refuse to provide coverage for women, what other objections to the Affordable Care Act will we see based on 'religious grounds'? For that matter, will 'religious freedom' be used as an excuse to discriminate against other minorities and disenfranchised groups across the board? Where will it end?
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.
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.
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
If it weren't for the mentorship and guidance from people like my mother, James Brown and others, I wouldn't have been able to make something of my life.
It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.
In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.