Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
Business as usual will not be accepted by the people of this city.
Business as usual will not be accepted by this chief executive of this great city.
Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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.
I am my own man, I make my own decisions, and even my daddy could tell you that.
I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad 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 want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.
Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
Our government will be moving forward as well, including more people and more kinds of people than any government in the history of Chicago.
That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
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.
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.
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.
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