Marion Barry

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) served as Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C. from 1979 to 1991. He was forced to leave office during his third term as a result of his arrest and conviction on drug charges but was later again elected to the D.C. council and ultimately to the mayoralty, serving a fourth term from 1995 to 1999.

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"Just as the Jews did after the Holocaust, never again will be allow this many murders in the streets of Washington, D.C. Never again."

- Marion Barry

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"Outside of the killings, D.C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."

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"Bitch set me up... I shouldn't have come up here... goddamn bitch."

- Marion Barry

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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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"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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"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."

- Marion Barry

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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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"the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford...The guy used crack cocaine, and he did his job. Despite what you think of him and his politics, but he came to work every day. He did his job. The same is true even of Marion Barry. He came to work every day, did his job. In fact, he did his job so well, so the people of D.C. thought, that they voted for him even after he was convicted for using crack. But that’s the majority of crack cocaine users. Just like any other drug, most of the people who use these drugs do so without a problem."