Harold Washington/mayor of Chicago 1983%e2%80%931987

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    “Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse.”
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    “Have you ever been in love? A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur out of me.”
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    “If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.”
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    “Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
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