Al Sharpton Quotes

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

[Donald] Trump doesn't give up and let [the Democrats] have what they want. But people around Trump and some others in the world of politics do.

I don't want to live in a world where Donald Trump is the President. He is not doing anything in Baltimore, but I am dedicated to using whatever platform I have to make sure that he is not the President. This is not simply a disagreement about ideas. It's a disagreement about values, and the values that he espouses are values of bigotry and hate, and that isn't OK.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

I like fighting Tories... that's what I do.

If Donald Trump governs the way he campaigned, it'll be a disastrous presidency. This is a chance for him to be magnanimous, humble. To work across the aisle. If that's the kind of president we have, that's fine. But if not, I want our DNC chair, I want Democratic senators and Congresspeople, citizens, we need to resist.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

I don't think it's fair, the way that the establishment is treating Donald Trump. I will be honest.

[People] just don't seem to want to give [Donald Trump] any kind of berth at all, let alone a wide berth, to govern.

I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.

Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

…I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.

He [Aneurin Bevan] will be as great a curse to this country in peace as he was a squalid nuisance in time of war.

Government is not for the short-winded.

Anyone who is a leader for reform will accumulate enemies over time.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of all!" has the calling for politics.

Our job is to bash the President.

I'm not quite sure precisely when social and political activism became a visible brand of my DNA, but it seems to me that I was born into it. It is hard to be born into the experience in the world of poverty and not develop some instinct for survival and resistance to those things that oppress you.

I - look, I, you know, I find Donald Trump completely un-presidential, unacceptable. I don't like his methods. I don't think he's got any policies.

Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.