David Dinkins
David Dinkins
David Norman Dinkinsis an American politician who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City, from 1990 to 1993. He was the first and, to date, only African American to hold that office...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 July 1927
CityTrenton, NJ
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You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.
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criticize the incumbent, who I consider a friend.
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And we arrived there on Friday morning, went first to an AIDS hospital. That's always a very good thing to do. I'm particularly interested in that.
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Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.
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Ed Koch is an excellent example, but I'm not here to bash Ed either,
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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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We're clear on one thing, ... I support Freddy Ferrer.
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Well, I have not been a participant nor a witness of Mayor Bloomberg in press conferences. I really can't intelligently comment on that.
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I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?
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She gave the essence of civility to the struggle for equality in this country and kept alive the principles of fairness, equity and justice for which she, her husband, and their partners in struggle stood. The true measure of achievement is how many others we lift up along with us, and Mrs. King more than met that measure.
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We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.
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I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.
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Well, I think I am a very, very lucky person. I'm very fortunate.
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I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.