Al Sharpton Quotes

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

He was murdered by every member of the gospel who has remained silent about racial discrimination—who has hidden behind the stained glass windows of his church.. He was murdered by every Negro who accepted segregation.

Slavery was our original sin. Race, our continuing dilemma.

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

In the area of economic justice, we still have a long way to go. We have too many people who are discriminated against just because they happen to be black or they happen to be a woman or some other minority.

In the black community, Trump's history of racial discrimination is deeply embedded.

I couldn't see why a black man wasn't allowed to drink out of the same water fountain or sit in the same bus or go to the same schools as a white guy.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We all have a duty to do what we can to turn this around.

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.