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There are 24 quotes for the author Harold Washington

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I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Our government will be moving forward as well, including more people and more kinds of people than any government in the history of Chicago.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

The second fallacy is the idea that we have reached a kind of plateau, economically and socially, where there is no longer a need for affirmative action, no need for righting the balance.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

We have destroyed the dinosaur.

Business as usual will not be accepted by the people of this city.

Today has seen the bright daybreak for this city, and for perhaps this entire country. Blacks, whites, Hispanics, Jews, gentiles, Protestants and Catholics of all stripes have joined hands to form a new democratic coalition.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

We fought that good fight with unseasoned weapons and a phalanx of people who mostly had never been involved in a political campaign before.

Let's go to work. Thank you.

I am my own man, I make my own decisions, and even my daddy could tell you that.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

Business as usual will not be accepted by this chief executive of this great city.

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