Al Sharpton: The DNC Evoked a Sense of Hope that We Are Coming out of Trump’s Darkness

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SHARPTON: "It captured what we’re talking about this morning, a sense of hope that we are part of a continuing fight to break down barriers, and we can break them down. I think that what is important about what we are discussing this morning, people that are driven by hope and not despair are the ones that change society. I mean, the civil rights movement was 'We shall overcome.' ’88, Jesse Jackson, who we wheeled out last night, 'Keep hope alive.' Barack Obama, the audacity of hope. And I think that what we’ve seen too much among Democrats is the despair, how unfair it is. You have to give people a glimmer of hope. I think what I saw last night, more than I have seen in a long time, is hopeful people, people that are joyous and say, 'We can do this,' because if you feel you can do it, you can do it. Every speaker kind of brought that home last night. Hillary Clinton was excellent. AOC was excellent. Raphael Warnock, in a league by himself. But I think all of them saying, 'We can really do this. We are coming out of this darkness that Donald Trump has put us in. He wants us to keep recycling that.'"