Al Sharpton Quotes

Provoking us into quarrels and violations of the peace is one of the most common methods used … to destroy public sympathy and defeat our cause.

I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

I was a troublemaking kid.

I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

I like bothering people and stirring things up.

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

I was very troubled, yes. Me and my brother both - we were troubled and troublemakers.

Turmoil stimulates.

… a major threat to regional stability.

A bullpen seething with mischief.

There will never be quietness in this country till half a dozen of you be hanged or banished.

This House has heard discord and rebellion encouraged and avowed from more than one quarter.

We have tried everything to prevent this, but they have got too powerful, and there is nothing for us but for our friends to go into their meetings and disturb the harmony of them, and create division.

Turkey is a plague spot … a breeder of wars

American have become unruly steeds.

When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

I'm just a troublemaker.

I like the concept of escalating warfare, but you need someone to fight back in order for things to escalate. If there's no confrontation or argument going on, it's too dull for me. I think that's the nature of the prankster: Things are too quiet. What can I do?

I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; and that sugar, right by me, did look so nice, and my mistress's back was turned to me while she was fighting with her husband, so I just put my fingers in the sugar bowl to take one lump, and maybe she heard me, for she turned and saw me. The next minute, she had the rawhide down.