American - Politician | March 6, 1936 - November 23, 2014
I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.
Marion Barry
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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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First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.
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If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
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Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.
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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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The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
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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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Love is very fleeting with me. I don't know why.
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Who can better help our city recover than someone who himself has gone through recovery?
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This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
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