Harold Washington

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

I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

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

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

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

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.