Social Gains Quotes by Harold Washington

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Harold Washington has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the…
• I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy…
• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
• Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.
• I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the…
• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
• Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
• The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
• Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
• Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.
• Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
• I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

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