You can't help! You can't help! You go to any of those places, you can say you're from Chicago.
They say I'm a hero! Hero! The day of our lives, we were the hog butchers.
We built the city on our shoulders.
We made the river run backwards.
We stayed in people's backyards because of restrictive covenants.
We paid our taxes and couldn't get represented.
And yet we would not bow, we did not get weary.
And in your own time, you raised up a man with the integrity, the intelligence, the environment, the drive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the next mayor of the city of Chicago, Mayor Carol Washington.
We want care! We want care! We want care! It appears by the almost complete returns, it appears that I have been nominated, the Democratic by the Democratic voter.
We, there and now! As the Democratic candidate for mayor, Mike Mulvaney.
We have opposed this.
We open our arms to those who have opposed this.
To those who have opposed this, we open our arms and offer you to join our movement.
And I want to particularly thank Richard Daly for his graciousness, for his graciousness.
We love you! Our movement has taken hold, it's deep, has moved from the largest to the mainstream of politics here in Chicago.
The language has been changed, the norm in nature has changed, the behavior of the politicians has changed.
And we love you! By the unprecedented coalition of Blacks and Whites.
Write it hard.
That's the same, please.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm going to swear him in.
Would you hold up your right hand Mr.
Stickler and just repeat after me and say I have been Stickler.
I have been Stickler.
Who resides in the state of Illinois.
Resides in the state of Illinois.
Hereby swear.
That I am a citizen.
Of the United States.
That on the date herein.
That on the date herein.
That on this date.
Mr.
Stickler, you can move for a mayor of your choice.
Thank you so much.
Mr.
Stickler, how you doing, buddy? Yeah.
Watch what I'm doing.
You gotta kiss that woman.
Y 'all fall out.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
You're so handsome.
You should have been a cat to a fox who was in Chicago.
One more kiss.
One more kiss.
One more kiss.
One more kiss.
One more kiss.
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Pepperbiter and Hallie Ross.
It's time we came together.
Thank you, thank you.
Yeah! Thank you, thank you.
Alright! Beautiful! There's more I could say about her, but George Don lives in the same neighborhood and has made some more personal observations.
He should know he lives near where she lives.
I support Harold Washington because he is our democratic choice.
He is not a perfect choice.
He is our personal choice.
And that's all required in a democracy.
He is not the perfect choice.
He is our personal choice.
And that's all that's required in a democracy.
Coach houses in the back because of restrictive covenants.
We find that's the suburbs.
We find that's the loop.
We were in the middle of the loop while somebody else had the rope.
We were the hole in the doughnut.
We have paid our dues.
Dr.
King did not march in vain.
This is our day.
In Chicago, Dr.
King was vilified.
Bless the spirit of our spirit to lift us to higher ground.
Now we commit ourselves to thee.
We are going to hold out to the end.
It's been a long night, a lot of death, a lot of heartache, a lot of pain.
But you taught us in your word that weeping may endure for a night.
But if we hold on, joy will come in the morning.
You taught us in your word in a time of joy.
We are out of rain.
But may it rain someday.
Oh, we will believe.
We shall overcome someday.
God is on our side.
God is on our side.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We were once perceived as midgets, but not really midgets.
We were giants all the while.
We were just standing in holes.
We need not apologize in the long or about the givens.
Dana does not have to apologize about being a white male.
It's self -evident.
Jane Byrne does not have to apologize about being white and female.
It's self -evident.
Here, Washington's blackness is self -evident.
Thank you.
Oh, hey, hey, hey.
Hey, Dad, we might live, and for such a sacrifice, we are grateful.
Hold the memories of his family in the heart of thine own hand, and then somehow, someway forgive us for our sins and for our foolish ways.
But then let us use this occasion to come together to live for what Rudy died about, a quest for justice at home and peace abroad.
As we fight, Rudy lives because he lives in us.
We vow to fight under the justices realized in our nation and peace in our world.
May his soul rest in peace.
May we maintain the fire and the desire to make a difference in this world.
Amen.
Come together.
Our time has come.
It is significant as we celebrate today the life and work of Brother Rudy that this week begins one of the most important political debates in the recent history of the Hispanic community in our nation.
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For in so many ways we must declare today to the killers of Rudy and Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
and medgivers, all the great mothers of our struggle, that you may kill the dreamer but you cannot kill the dream.
We declare that Rudy Lozano lives because we live.
We declare that Rudy Lozano lives because we live.
The United States.
President and Mrs.
Clinton earlier about the circumstance that prompted him earlier this year to ask his cabinet officers to focus on public housing in Chicago.
Mrs.
Clinton, let me introduce you to the future, Tiffany Hudson.
Before I begin, I would like to say thank you all for your support because without you I couldn't have made it.
Thank you Mr.
Secretary.
Earlier in the year, Beethoven Elementary School won first place in a national contest for assembling a peace movement quilt.
Out all community.
Our first United States.
I am glad to be here today.
Glad to be back here today.
Glad to be here with Tiffany who represents our best hope for the future and our obligation to do the right thing here in Robert Taylor Homes and throughout the United States.
I'm glad to be here with Secretary Cisneros.
You can tell by listening to how I ask if I could come and see it.
When I first came here, I was just the governor of another state, an interested American, a person who couldn't tolerate the thought that young people would be raised in the kind of danger and deprived of the kind of hope that I was seeing not just here.
In 1939, he finished his career as a player, once again as an archer in Boca Rona.
He assumed the so -called gymnasium and the silver medal.
He returned to his first love, the gymnasium of the silver medal.
I don't know if we have food in this.
I have to say this just for a moment.
I was a little late coming to Illinois yesterday because I spent most of the day working on our differences with North Korea over their nuclear program.
The major part of my job is dealing with the security of this country, the national security.
But it's also important to recognize that this nation's security also depends upon whether the children who live here in Robert Taylor Homes can go to sleep at night safe and get up and go to school in the morning safe.
That is a big part of our national security as well.
...health care for all Americans, to working on empowering our communities through welfare reform and the crime bill and the family leave bill.
Well, that involves people like you.
There are plenty of people, I think, who just want to live in peace and have a chance.
I look out here and see these kids and I heard Tiffany's classmates cheering for her when she got up and I thought to myself, this would happen.
And not enough things for our young people to say yes to.
You just can't tell people to say no all the time.
They have to have something to say yes to as well.
That's why I want to thank these men and the others who are here with the Midnight Basketball Program.
I love them.
There are special memories that I will always treasure.
As I talk, when I talk with Joseph, I know in my heart that my son is special.
He has the ability to understand and analyze difficult situations struck by his vision.
His ability to see the big picture.
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Thank you very much for the performance.
To the people of America sending a loud and clear message.
They want a government to be accountable for addressing their problems.
I believe they will listen and they will act.
And together we will win this country.
This is not a partisan bill.
We have Republicans and Democrats and Independents.
They have been incommunicating us today.
Quiet is an issue.
It's not for Chicago.
It's not for the suburbs.
It's not for downstate.
You talk to anyone.
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the city of Chicago community.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
And for you, it's for these young kids right here to grow up and be a part of a strong and vibrant city of Chicago.
Isn't that what we want? For our children.
And our children's children.
I want to say, I've reached this decision because we have to have change in Chicago.
And it has to start right now.
Not tomorrow, right now.
This is the beginning of a crusade that's going to carry us all the way through November 8th, because we got elections on November 8th, all the way to February 28th, when we, the people, are going to assume our rightful position in this city.
We're going to take back the fifth floor of Chicago.
We're going to build housing, provide jobs for our people.
We're not sleeping.
We're just waiting for the opportunity to go to work.
And win.
To go to work and win.
So before we leave today, over the tent, we're going to have little cards we want you to sign up.
Every one of you, held up your hands, it takes you a half an hour to become a deputy registrar.
That's all.
Can I get 30 minutes of your time over the next two weeks? Can I get 30 minutes of your time? Can I get 30 minutes of your time? Let me hear it loud.
Real loud.
All right.
My second task will be to commit myself to change in the mayor's office and in city government.
Change is not easy.
It never has and never will be.
I know it will be tough, but I have my health.
I have the support of my family.
I have your support and more support than I have the support of myself.
I have the support of my family.
I have the support of my family.
I have the support of my family.
And our authority belongs to the people.
Those of us who have gathered here today have the authority.
Better than that, we have the power to take control of our fate.
The power for change is invested in us and the people of Chicago.
And you must believe, you must believe, the biggest obstacle we have folks, the mayor's office and taking back the fifth floor city hall is that if we don't have faith in ourselves, we've got the numbers, we've got the commitment, we've got people of all ethnic groups, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Polish Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, all willing to become a part of this crusade and become part of this movement.
But we've got to believe.
I want to just say as I...
Come on.
Chicago is the engine that moves not only Illinois, but the entire Midwest.
A healthy Chicago means a healthy metro area and a healthy state.
But the road is not going to be easy.
I'm really going to have to depend on people like the gentleman here from Ross Perot, I'm going to have to depend on people like the people that have headed campaigns that are back over there, and of course Republicans.
I'm going to have to depend on everybody.
People go to city hall and they go to the seats of power.
Everybody has a pump card.
If I am as lucky as most American males...
If any of you have plans of riding back with some other source, please let me know so that we can...
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Victory today is mine.
Thank you.
Thank you.
