There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.
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When you start dealing with real change you are talking about interferring with those who are in possession of something.Carl Stokes
When you realize that people have that sort of feeling about you, that you're going to be some sort of savior from their dilemma, it's very sobering, because it imposes a great responsibility upon you.
Carl Stokes
My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
Carl Stokes
Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.
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I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.
Carl Stokes
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