You don’t need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.
Category Archive: Al Sharpton
As a kid who grew up chubby, I just marveled at the fact that I could be thin.
I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn’t take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.
My ministry’s always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.
All women, regardless of her economic status or racial background, have a right to vote, and no politician or regressive law should prevent her from doing so.
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.
During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
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.
I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.