"Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but……" — David Dinkins
"Race relations can be an appropriate issue... but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure."
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David Dinkins
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28 Quotes by David Dinkins
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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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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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In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
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