Marion Barry Quotes
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
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Just as the Jews did after the Holocaust, never again will be allow this many murders in the streets of Washington, D.C. Never again.
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The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.
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They made all this up to justify questioning me. It's all made up. I don't know what happened. Whatever they say was all made up.
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What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.
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Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don't have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?
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White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that's a whole 'nother story.
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This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
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We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go. I’ll just say that right now, you know. But we need African American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.
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I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
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What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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My greatest work comes in the community.
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Who can better help our city recover than someone who himself has gone through recovery?
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The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell. We want Ward 8 to be the model of diversity.
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I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
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The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
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People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are.
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I like boxing.
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When you know more, you can do more.
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There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
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Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.
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In Washington, I have worked hard for the people, and I've been loved by the people.
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I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.