Harold Washington Quotations

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

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

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.

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

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

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.

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

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

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 is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.