When you start dealing with real change you are talking about interferring with those who are in possession of something.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.Carl Stokes
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure.
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It's really about schools and education. It really is about being America's safest city. I think that race is always bubbling somewhere and sometimes it does surface, but I don't think that the majority of the voters are going to pick a mayor or a candidate based solely on race.
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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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.
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