Quotes by Lori Lightfoot - Page 2

It's true that not every day a little black girl in a low-income family from a segregated steel town makes the runoff to be the mayor of the third-largest city in America.
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Family
Girl
America
Black
Low Income
Steel
Little
True
Every Day
Makes
Mayor
Segregated
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While I am opposed to elected officials running for multiple offices simultaneously, or within several months of one another, I do not support a state law making it illegal.
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Elected Officials
Illegal
Multiple
Offices
Simultaneously
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What I favor is that we have health care access to people that is not income based. We have to have health care that is acceptable and it's going to come in a number of forms.
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Acceptable
Health People Care
Favor
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So, yes, I became the vessel into which people poured their hopes that we can have a different kind of city. I recognize that, but in politics, sometimes it's good to be lucky.
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Lucky
Vessel
Became
Different Kind
Hopes
Poured
Recognize
Yes
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Building channels for people to believe that the city sees them and hears them and is willing to invest, is going to be critically important, and we have to start that right away.
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Willing
Channels
Invest
Critically
Hears
Right Away
Sees
Start
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If you really want to make a difference you don't do it via Tweet, via Facebook, via Instagram - you get down, you understand what the facts are and then you offer a path forward.
Lori Lightfoot /
Instagram
Path
Tweet
Facebook
Make A Difference
Via
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Let's stand together, stick together, and work together for justice of every description. Racial justice. Gender justice. Immigrant justice. Economic justice. Environmental justice.
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Work
Environmental
Description
Economic
Economic Justice
Gender
Justice
Together
Stand
Every
Immigrant
Racial
Stick
Work Together
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To make blatant racial appeals or just blatant appeals only targeted to the LGBTQ+ community, I didn't think that that was a winning formula, and it's also inconsistent with who I am.
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Appeals
Inconsistent
Blatant
Formula
Racial
Targeted
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I support progressive revenue sources that ease the burden on low-income and working-class individuals and families who are least able to shoulder the burden of regressive taxes and fees.
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Able
Burden
Ease
Fees
Low Income
Progressive
Revenue
Support
Working Class
Individuals
Least
Shoulder
Sources
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I think of being the mayor of a big city with so many incredible things happening - but also so many challenges and opportunities - as really being kind of the chief advocate for the people.
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Advocate
Big City
Chief
For The People
Mayor
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I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can to be present in her life, to be her mother. I don't want to be absent from her life.
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Absent
Life Time Long
Life Time Mother
Really Long Time
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When I was in my 20s and kind of going through my own coming out process, I feared that I would lose my family. I feared that I would grow old alone. And that was a real part of my struggle.
Lori Lightfoot /
Feared
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I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.
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Effects
Equity
Inclusion
Principles
Devastating
Guiding
Meaning Of
Real Meaning
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We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence.
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Causes
Gun
Proactive
Public Health
Strategy
Embarked
Root
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And I would like to have a good, productive relationship with members of the City Council, but I'm not going to allow them to undermine what the people's choice was and what the people want, which is change.
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City Council
Council
Undermine
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Police can't be successful if they're not viewed as legitimate by the community, and a community will not be safe if the police are not engaged in a respectful, constitutional partnership with the community.
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Community
Engaged
Partnership
Police
Respectful
Safe
Successful
Constitutional
Legitimate
Viewed
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Chicago is the largest city in the country without mayoral term limits. This has led to entrenched leaders, a lack of new ideas and creative thinking and a city government that works for the few, not the many.
Lori Lightfoot /
City Government
New Ideas
Term Limits
Entrenched
Largest
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Police departments, since the start of the history of this country, have been used to enforce unconstitutional laws that were designed to discriminate against communities of color and particularly African Americans.
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Color
Police
Unconstitutional
Since
African
African Americans
Communities
Departments
Designed
Discriminate
Enforce
Particularly
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Both my brothers played football. My mother had season tickets as a school board member. I was in the band, my sister was in the band. The thing was, the unifying civic activity was obsession over high school football.
Lori Lightfoot /
Obsession
School Board
Tickets
Unifying
Board
Civic
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Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.
Lori Lightfoot /
Atm
Chicago
Clear
County
Fees
Low Income
Cook
Forcing
Limit
No Limit
Treating
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I grew up in a small segregated steel town 6o miles outside of Cleveland, my parents grew up in the segregated south. As a family we struggled financially, and I grew up in the '60s and '70s where overt racism ruled the day.
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Cleveland
Miles
Racism
Steel
Financially
Struggled
Ruled
Segregated
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If you look at the number of aldermen who have been prosecuted and found liable of federal crimes over the years... the common thread among all of them is doing something in the exercise of aldermanic prerogative or privilege.
Lori Lightfoot /
Liable
Prerogative
Thread
Crimes
Prosecuted
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I do not support the city's red light camera system. This system was sold to Chicagoans as a public safety solution, but it's always really been about revenue, and we've seen that fines fall disproportionately on people of color.
Lori Lightfoot /
Public Safety
Revenue
Safety
Disproportionately
Fines
Red Light
Sold
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You're never going to catch me agreeing with anything that Bruce Rauner says, given the things he's done in this state, trying to pit the city of Chicago against the rest of Illinois - I'll never agree with anything Bruce Rauner says.
Lori Lightfoot /
Illinois
Agreeing
Bruce
Catch
Pit
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Our kids' lives depend upon keeping them safe. That has to be a fundamental duty and responsibility for me as mayor. That means we have to continue hard but necessary work of bridging the divide between police and communities they serve.
Lori Lightfoot /
Responsibility
Safe
Communities
Depend
Divide
Fundamental
Mayor
Serve
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When I hear stories about the number of kids that have been lost to violence, where families grow up teaching kids 'duck and cover' long before they learn their ABC's or their colors, I know there is something profoundly wrong in our city.
Lori Lightfoot /
Abc
Colors
Cover
Duck
Number
Grow Up
Profoundly
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We cannot create the perception that if you're rich or famous or both that you got one set of justice - and for everybody else it's something much harsher. That won't do and we need to make sure that we have a criminal justice system that has integrity.
Lori Lightfoot /
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Perception
Criminal
Everybody Else
We Cannot
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I'm not affiliated with Ed Burke, Joe Berrios or anyone else who represents the old, corrupt Chicago way. I am offering voters a complete break from that past and pushing us forward in a way that brings people together and makes government more inclusive.
Lori Lightfoot /
Offering
Pushing
Voters
Affiliated
Anyone Else
Corrupt
Inclusive
Joe
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For more than two decades Chicagoans have routinely traveled to neighboring cities like Rosemont, Elgin, Joliet, Gary and Hammond to gamble. If people in Chicago want to gamble, then they should be able to gamble in Chicago at a city-owned, land-based casino.
Lori Lightfoot /
Chicago
Cities
Decades
Gamble
Gary
Traveled
People More Want
Casino
Neighboring
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I have a coming-out story that's probably very similar to lots of people who are my age: the fear of being rejected, the fear of losing your family and friends. You know, I worked through all of that, and that fear, and what that does to you, is pretty profound.
Lori Lightfoot /
Family And Friends
Profound
Rejected
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My view is I should have been Miss Massillonian, and I wasn't. I think the reason I wasn't was because I was black. Frankly, I was told later I should have been. But they were afraid if they elected a black girl as Miss Massillonian, it would have been a scandal.
Lori Lightfoot /
Scandal
Frankly
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It's going very different for citizens of Chicago to know that they have an advocate in the mayor's office - getting rid of the 'us versus them,' the lack of investment in our neighborhoods, the feeling that the only thing that matters is if you're a campaign donor.
Lori Lightfoot /
Chicago
Citizens
Different
Investment
Office
Versus
Advocate
Campaign
Donor
Getting
Matters
Feeling
Lack
Mayor
Neighborhoods
Rid
The Only Thing
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I have a wealth of experience, not only as a senior executive in different departments in the city, but I've also, in my private practice life, helped small businesses, middle-market businesses really try to navigate the sometimes difficult world of city government.
Lori Lightfoot /
City Government
Navigate
Senior
Departments
Executive
Small Businesses
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I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults lie. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when adults are bullies. I have to explain to my daughter what it means when an adult says something that's not true just to try to score political points.
Lori Lightfoot /
Daughter
Score
Adult
Bullies
Explain
Lie
Says
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If aldermen are doing their job right, they should be the ones who are closest to the vibe and the beat in their neighborhood and have a very important role to play on a number of different issues, but not a unilateral, unchecked right. That's gone as soon as I take office.
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Closest
Neighborhood
Important Role
Unilateral
Vibe
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One of the challenges I think we have is people feel like the act of governance is a zero sum game. 'Whatever I get, you're not getting.' Changing that dynamic is going to be critically important for me as a leader, so that people don't feel they're pitted against each other.
Lori Lightfoot /
Zero
Governance
Leader
Critically
Dynamic
Sum
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Our children... deserve to grow up in an environment where fear is not their constant companion. And I'm determined to do everything I can to make sure every kid - in every neighborhood regardless of zip code, economic status and race or ethnicity - is able to live a life of safety.
Lori Lightfoot /
Able
Code
Companion
Constant
Deserve
Determined
Economic
Environment
Ethnicity
Neighborhood
Race
Safety
Sure
Grow Up
Regardless
Status
Zip
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As I examine progressive revenue options, I want to make sure wealthy individuals and businesses pay their fair share, that we reduce the burden on low-income and middle-class families, and not drive businesses from Chicago or create a disincentive for businesses to invest in our city.
Lori Lightfoot /
Burden
Fair Share
Low Income
Revenue
Invest
Examine
Options
Reduce
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When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not.
Lori Lightfoot /
Hi
Legally
Solely
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We are a city that is a sanctuary city. We have immigrants from all over the world who call Chicago their home. They'll continue to do that, and we're going to continue to make sure that this is truly a welcoming community for those immigrants and we want them to come to the city of Chicago.
Lori Lightfoot /
Immigrants
Sanctuary
Home Community World
Welcoming
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I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I felt like an outsider, and since I didn't know of LGBT people - much less LGBT black women - living happy, healthy, and successful lives, I didn't believe I could ever marry or have a child.
Lori Lightfoot /
Black
Elementary School
Felt
Grew
Healthy
Low Income
Small Town
Successful
Child
Since
Less
Elementary
Marry
Small
Outsider
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Look, there's no question that we have a challenge with gun violence. But there's a lot more nuanced parts of that narrative, and that's the part that I think that we have to make sure that we emphasize along with all the great things that are going on in Chicago, particularly in our neighborhoods.
Lori Lightfoot /
Great Things
Gun
Narrative
Emphasize
No Question
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I want to make sure that I am the leader that respects the fact that kids all over the city and hopefully all over the country really understand that they can do anything that they want to do, that they set their minds to do, as long as they've got good, strong support from adults and love to support them.
Lori Lightfoot /
Adult
Love Good I Am
Minds
Respects
Strong Support
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What I hear from folks all the time is 'us against them.' It is a core part of what they feel is happening with our government. Investing here, but not there. Listening to some, but not nearly enough. Going into certain neighborhoods, but not others. That divide is something we have to categorically reject.
Lori Lightfoot /
Investing
Categorically
Divide
Reject
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When I came out, it wasn't a big formal conversation like in the movies. I just started living as my true and authentic self and opened up my life to my parents - sharing who I was, and bringing a girlfriend when I came home for a visit. To my great surprise, my parents accepted me for who I was and have supported me since.
Lori Lightfoot /
Accepted
Authentic Self
Formal
Surprise
Life Home Great
Authentic
Opened
Sharing
Visit
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