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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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They made all this up to justify questioning me. It's all made up. I don't know what happened. Whatever they say was all made up.
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The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell. We want Ward 8 to be the model of diversity.
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We've got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go. I'll just say that right now, you know. But we need African American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.
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There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
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Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch.
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Why should black people feel elated when we see men eating on the moon when millions of blacks and poor whites don't have enough money to buy food here on earth?
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On being reelected for a fourth term as Mayor:
Get over it. I'm the best person for Washington.
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Born:
March 6, 1936
Died:
November 23, 2014
(aged 78)
Bio:
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. was an American politician who served as the second Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999.
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