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Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

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

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

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

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.