"The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house."

Dreams

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Insight & Reflection

When Al Sharpton speaks about dreams, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of dreams in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

About Al Sharpton

Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. is an American civil rights and social justice activist, Baptist minister, radio talk show host, and TV personality, who is also the founder of the National Action Network civil rights organization. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts a weekday radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, which is nationally syndicated by Urban One, and he is a political analyst and weekend host for MS NOW, hosting PoliticsNation.

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"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"

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"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."

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"I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink."

— Klaus Kinski
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"Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me."

— Nicole Kidman
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"It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood."

— John Baldessari
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"I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'"

— Jeffrey R. Immelt
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