Top 8 Lucille Berrien Quotes

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Lucille Berrien (born in 1928) is an activist from Milwaukee. She was good friends with fellow Open housing advocate James Groppi. She ran for mayor of Milwaukee in 1972, becoming the first African-American woman to do so, but lost the race to incumbent Henry Maier. Though she had recently joined the Black Panther Party, she ran a non-partisan race for mayor.

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I’m never afraid to walk the streets of Milwaukee.

I want change for my grandchildren.

They need to know why they are where they are. And they don’t. It’s the young people that make the world go ‘round.

On a professional level, my law firm also enacts her philosophy. If we make Lucille proud, I know we’re doing our job and making good on our mission statement.

Things are going so backwards in Milwaukee, makes you wish for those days to come back.

It was a lot of hard work, And I knew I wasn’t going to win. There are two kinds of power: money power and people power. If you don’t have the money, you can still win with people.

I supported them. I thought what they were doing was correct.

I was 24 years old when I became a widow, and I think about all those mothers who have husbands in Iraq. It will be harder for them than it was for me. I always said that if anything happened to my husband I would take the kids up North. I thought they would have a higher quality education.