Quotes by David N. Dinkins

“. . .little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.”

“Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.”

“Race relations can be an appropriate issue . . . but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.”

“I havent committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.”

“You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper you can be . . . And, you know you can be mayor.”

“I dont find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?”