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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Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.
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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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Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
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The people really are what make New York City great.
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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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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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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.