"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."

-- Harold Washington

#Race Quotes #People Quotes #Chicago Quotes

“If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.”
“Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.”
“It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.”
“Believe in the power of songs,”
“The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...”
“You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in a bus line. And they touch your life for a moment, but in a special way. And instead of mourning because they can't be with you for longer, or because you don't get the chance to know them better, isn't it better to be glad that you met them at all?”
“I have been in a youth hostel...You are put in a kitchen with seventeen venture scouts with behavioural difficulties and made to wash swedes.”

You may also like:

Carol Moseley Braun
Former United States Senator
David Axelrod
Former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States
Jane Byrne
Former Mayor of Chicago
Jesse Jackson
Activist
Rahm Emanuel
Mayor of Chicago
Richard J. Daley
Former Mayor of Chicago
Richard M. Daley
Former Mayor of Chicago
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President
Valerie Jarrett
Lawyer