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David Dinkins was an American politician best known as the first African American mayor of New York City. His tenure focused on improving race relations and reducing crime in a turbulent era for the city. He is remembered for his dedication to public service and efforts to unify diverse communities. Here are 30 of his quotes:

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. (David 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.

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I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.

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This is about these particular candidates in this particular year. That's what motivates me.

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We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that.

David Dinkins

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David Dinkins

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Occupation: American Politician
Born: July 10, 1927
Died: November 23, 2020
Quotes count: 30

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