"My mother came here to New York. She……" — David Dinkins
"My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people."
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28 Quotes by David Dinkins
David Dinkins has 28 quotes on this site.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.
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And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
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Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If…
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And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.
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As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
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But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown.
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But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
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Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach…
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I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.
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I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done…
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I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.
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