Lori Lightfoot Quotes

Lori Lightfoot

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 4, 1962

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

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.

Lori Lightfoot

Let's stand together, stick together, and work together for justice of every description. Racial justice. Gender justice. Immigrant justice. Economic justice. Environmental justice.

Lori Lightfoot

Fundamentally, if people don't feel like their lives are valued and they don't value their lives, they're not going to value their neighbors' lives.

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The only thing you have in your life is your integrity.

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I can't look into the crystal ball. All I can do is the here and now.

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I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

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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.

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I've been lucky and I recognize that, but I haven't lost sight of that girl I was.

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I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

Lori Lightfoot

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

Lori Lightfoot

Chicago's been under the grip of the corrupt and broken political machine for as long as everybody's memory.

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We need to educate our young people about the dangers of gun violence and that there are real consequences for solving disputes with guns.

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I'm an ardent feminist.

Lori Lightfoot

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.

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If people don't feel safe, they're not going to have hope.

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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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You know, I can't afford to take anything for granted.

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Retired public service workers make up the backbone of the middle class in so many of our communities.

Lori Lightfoot

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