Harold Washington

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.