Mikey Royko 1

|| Chicago Author || Pulitzer Prize Winner || Voice of the Working Class || Professional Complainer

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

He had worked all those years to get it, and it was his, the machine, the city, and nobody could stare him down. (210) #tyrant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

This family man, this hard-working, misunderstood man,-unburdening himself of that which he had stoically endured in silence(192) #RoykoRant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

Most of them assumed that the media had collaborated with the police. (177). #Machine

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

They had not seen the things he had built, the towers, the airport, the expressways: Daley's Chicago. (172) #visionary

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

He would say "yes, sir" when Daley told him what to do. (164) #tyrant

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[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

Hungry people who slept five to a bed...and saw the sky through holes in their roof, might not have called it a "voluntary arrangement" #RR

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

The next police chief had to be someone from outside Chicago, someone impeccable, expert, and entirely unlike a Chicago policeman(117)#CTMT

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

He had slapped down the educational reformers too when they made the same mistake...:trying to tell him how to run things (206). #Tyrant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

[Daley] trying to participate in a convention as if nothing happening on the street was in any way connected with it (189) #RoykoRant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

One by one, and sometimes several at a time he had crushed the people who rose up during the post convention years of discontent(207)#Tyrant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

Clergymen trying to calm the situation were beaten. Some people were tossed into the park's lagoon, including a man-on a bike(188)#RoykoRant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

" -He was the man, the magazines said, who had the answers, the programs, who knew how to get things done" (164-165) #RoykoRant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

"They understood: he was maintaining black dependency-always a tenant, never an owner, not quite a citizen" (147) #CTMT

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

It was his, the Machine, the city, and nobody could stare him down. Even Cardinal John Cody- was nervous in his presence (210) #tyrant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

-the city &-Machine-still belong to him. At sixty-eight-he was still running things-he-shaped the city & Machine to his liking-(201) #Tyrant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

Furious, he taught them that nobody was telling him who he should hire and fire (206) #Tyrant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

-why should somebody else have the glory-why should somebody else's city be bounced off Telstar to the TV screens of the world?(172) #Tyrant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

"Besides bootstraps and fear, it was wise to keep the black where he was. Concentrated, the black vote was easily controlled" (140) #Tyrant

[Mikey Royko 1 @APRoyko1]

I said-to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail-because they're potential murderers-shoot to maim-anyone looting(168) #Tyrant