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Coleman Young

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I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.


— Coleman Young


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You can't look forward and backward at the same time.


— Coleman Young


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There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.


— Coleman Young


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"Blacks and the Police State: A Case Study of Detroit" Black Scholar (1981) 12#1 pp 58–61
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Coleman Young was known for his blunt statements frequently using profanity:

” On trying to enroll at De La Salle High School in Detroit: “A brother in the order asked if I was Hawaiian. He called an ideological truce and won the support of Detroit's economic elite.

Coleman Alexander Young (May 24 1918 – November 29 1997) served as mayor of Detroit Michigan from 1974 to 1993. Young became the first African-American mayor of Detroit in the same week that Maynard Jackson became the first African-American mayor of Atlanta.

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